FG to spend N22.7bn on Adamawa road rehab

The federal government is to spend the sum of N22,699,176,016.86 on the rehabilitation of Mayo Belwa-JadaGanye-Toungo road in Adamawa state.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola, who was represented by the Minister of State 1, Mustapha Baba Shehuri, disclosed this while flagging -off the road project in Mayo Belwa town, at the weekend.
A statement signed by the Director of Information at the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Theodore Ogaziechi, stated that the 112km road was due for rehabilitation having been built since 1999.
Fashola stated that the road, which is presently characterized with failed sections, potholes, alligator cracks, depressions and washouts at the edges, is an important economic route which links and passes through the agriculturally predominant towns of Mararaba, Jamtari, Jada, Dashen, Ganye and Toungo.
The minister, who also said that the road also leads to the neighbouring Taraba state, disclosed that its contract has a completion period of 36 months, adding that it provides for the reconstruction of 112km road to a required 7.3m carriageway width and 2.75m shoulders.
The carriageway, he noted, is to be overlaid with 60mm asphalt concrete binder course, 40mm asphalt concrete wearing course with pavement of 200mm thick and 200mm stone base.
In his response, the Governor of Adamawa State, Senator Bindow Umaru Jubrilla, thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and Members of the National Assembly, especially the member representing Jada-Ganye-Mayo Belwa-Toungo Federal Constituency, Hon.
Abdulrazak Namdas for finding it worthy to invest so much on the corridor.
He stated that the Federal Government is bound to generate huge revenue from the investment in the area of increased rice production and livestock farming.