Ahead of the rainy season season, four communities in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state have appealed to Governor Uba Sani to provide them with access road to ease their suffering and enable them move in and out of their communities without challenge.
Communities leaders of Sabon Gyero, Danhono 2, Doka Mai-Jama’a and Bayan Tsauni all in Millennium City, Chikun LGA decried the poor states of the roads leading to their community, noting that it has caused them lots of problems, as they have to manoeuver through swampy waterlogged roads to reach their house.
They also said the roads force the residents to spend so much money on repairing their vehicles, and that they being cut off from home or from going out especially after heavy rainfalls.
According to the community leaders, for decades, both Chikun LGA and Kaduna state government have neglected these communities forcing them to suffer their roads’ challenges in silence.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, one of the community leaders in one of the communities, Alhaji Muhammad Sani, lamented that due to poor condition of all the roads, people find it difficult to go to the town.
“If you used your car to drive down to town you have to visit mechanic every week particularly during raining season,” he said.
A civil servant in Kaduna, Khadija Ibrahim, lamented that most of the accidents on the area were due to the poor condition of the roads, as she appealed to Governor Uba Sani to also include the less than seven (7) kilometers roads in the ongoing rural development programme of his administration to solve their major problem.
“During the raining season, we experienced a lot of accidents due to the high level of mud in the roads, during dry season, it’s dust that affected our eyes, lungs and our dressing, making the road a nightmare for people whit asthma. Governor Uba Sani should kindly come to the rescue of our communities please,” she said.
A cursory observation of the roads that link the communities from the Umar Musa Yar’Adua expressway such as the Nurus Suraj Sabon Gyero road, the Danhono 2 Road at Millennium City observed that the presence of tippers that followed the roads to load laterite sand in the communities have destroyed the roads as they transport laterite soil for roads construction elsewhere within the Kaduna metropolis.
Also, Blueprint reports that the contractors handling road projects in Kaduna also impacted negatively on the state of those roads and they failed to fix the roads as part of their corporate social responsibilities.
