The Federal Government is executing a 45km Nigeria-Niger border road project in Sokoto State at the cost of over N 9 billion.
The road project, which links Nigeria and Niger Republic, is progressing at Balle, headquarters of Gudu Local Government in Sokoto to the Niger border.
“The work was being sucessfully conducted by the APC-led Federal Government, under President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The road project was facilitated by Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, representing Sokoto North Senatorial District.
“The invaluable gesture of Wamakko was aimed at further providing more roads linking Nigeria and her neighbours, as well as bolstering the socioeconomic development of the countries.
Reports revealed that the work was going on steadily and according to spefications.
It was also observed that, adequate drainages and culiverts were also being constructed along the road, to prevent it from being flooded during the raining season.
Similarly, the road was being asphalted, so as to guarnatee the safety of vehicles, as well as other motoring publics plying the road .
A leading politician from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the state, had challenged the ruling APC to showcase any work worth N500 million in Sokoto State.
“This road under focus is one of the myriad of developmental projects that were either successfully completed by the Federal Government or ongoing across the state,” Wamakko’s spokesman Bashir Rabe Mani said in the statement.
In a related development, another road project facilitated by Wamakko is the ongoing N4bn Sabon Birni to Tsululu to Maradi border.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government had also successfully executed scores of projects in the State under the Tertirary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
They were executed at the Usmanu Danfodiyo and Sokoto State Universities, Shehu Shagari College of Education and the Umaru Ali Polytechnic, all in Sokoto.
“These projects and many others in the pipeline showed that the Federal Government has made Sokoto as one of its priority states , contrary to the apprehension of some of its residents,” he said.
