As part of activities marking his 5th year in office, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has flagged of series of urban renewal projects aimed at changing the development narratives of the state.
This included the construction of seven overhead flyovers along Yola – AA Lawan junction and half Cloverleaf Interchange at Yola – Numan Road, as well as construction of Federal Housing Estate Road network and reconstruction of Jimeta Modern Stadium.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the fifth flyover and Yola mega city on Tuesday, Fintiri said the projects were masterpieces that would add not only municipal ecstacy to the city but also provide the necessary convenience to commuters plying the road.
He also said it would open up an entire new settlement in the capital and perhaps birth a new Yola with convenient residency.
The governor further noted that with the speed at which Yola was expanding, attracting new residents and inhabitants by the day, the pressures on the limited urban facilities was increasing just as the anticipated investment in the metropolis was growing, there was the need to brace up to mitigate the future challenges that definitely await the state.
He said it was a smart thinking for any responsible leadership to provide infrastructures that would positively respond to such geometrical cosmopolitan growth and mutual socio-economic cross pollination.
According to him, from the first term to the second term, his administration had been deliberate about making the provision of infrastructures through urban renewal a consistent item in his development agenda for obvious reasons.
This, according to him, was because he was clear on what he wanted to achieve and the vision was to re- invent an Adamawa state with a mega capital city that holds all the municipal trappings as well as the vision of building a city where citizens’ choice of place of settlement was decided not by the availability of municipal infrastructure but the choice of other determinants.
At the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Federal Housing Estate Road network in Bajabure Gerei Local Government, Fintiri said the project was an 18.5km long with 10.3 wide carriage way.
Also, the internal roads comprised various service roads in the estate making up a total of 14.8km long with 8m wide carriageway, making it one of the biggest single projects in his urban renewal campaigns awarded to MSSR Triacta Nigeria Ltd with a completion period of 12 months.
Speaking during the ground breaking of Adamawa State Stadium Complex along Yola-Numan Road which was awarded at the cost of 4.7bn Governor Fintiri expressed regret that the project which was very important, conceived with the best intention was abandoned by successive administrations in the state.
He noted that as government which believed in continuity, he measured the importance of the project to the teeming youths in the state and came to the conclusion that the value it brings to the table outweighs any pecuniary consideration hence the decision to reconstruct the stadium.
