The federal government has said the employment and business opportunities afforded Nigerians by the ongoing Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi expansion/dualisation project and others being executed from loans in the country may have proved critics of borrowing wrong.
The project was awarded in May 2015, commenced April 2019, billed for completion on April 1, 2022, currently at 41.7 per cent completion, and being handled by the Chinese Harbour Engineering Company. “You could see business activities of different kind booming as work continues on the road, and one of the things I saw is that falling of trees along the right of way is creating a secondary economy, women were chopping and gathering firewoods for business; some people are using the opportunity of the abundance of latent to make laterite bricks, more are still happening.“All these people working here may probably not have gotten job if not for this.
The Minister, who appeared to be satisfied with the pace of work, said because of certain unavoidable challenges such as managing the heavy traffic along the corridor on a daily basis by creating diversions at one point or the other, it was difficult to speed up work on such road project even if everything was on ground.
Keep borrowing, God is ur strength