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Buhari’s Legacy Highway To Dambatta And Daura By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta

February 15, 2023
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The ceremonial flag-off of the dualisation of the section of the A2 national trunk highway from Miltara to go through Dambatta, Kazaure,  Daura and end at Kwangwalam,  has delighted millions of Nigerians and friends of the country who  ply that route regularly.

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The ceremony  was jointly conducted in Kazaure by the Minister of Works and Housing, Alhaji Babatunde Raji Fashola for the Federal Government, and Alhaji Kabir Isyaku Rabiu, Executive Director for the contractors, BUA Group.

Dualising the 132-kilometre road, which goes through my  hometown of Dambatta,  is an important legacy of the  Muhammadu Buhari presdency.  It  will doubtlessly meet the expectations and aspirations of Nigerians for smooth roads. It will facilitate  accessibility to countless communities and enhance inter-community connectivity.

In a paper titled How Roads Support Development, World Bank researcher Claudia Berg and two others noted, “Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to schools, and the sick to hospitals, roads are vital to any development agenda.”

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BUA Group won the project for N116 billion. It is an indigenous  conglomerate involved in cement manufacturing, mining, agriculture and food processing, transportation, construction and energy. It is led by  Alhaji Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu, an astute industrialist and philanthropist.

The project will  be soley financed by BUA Group under the Presidential Executive Order 007 for Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Scheme. The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami,  described  the Scheme  as a noble initiative that should be applauded by all Nigerians.

In the same vein,  the Minister of Works and Housing said the Tax  Credit Scheme is a financing model whereby the government partners with private companies to pay Company Income Tax (CIT) in advance to enable the government implement  vital projects that would  benefit the citizenry.

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The road is  in a plain area with  very few bends, marshy or hilly terrain. It has only one main bridge along its 132-kilometre course that traverses Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states. During the flag-off ceremony, Bababtunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, urged governors  of the three states, traditional rulers and members of communities to give the contractor access to relevant sites for a speedy completion of the project.

The highway links sources of seemingly inexhaustible livestock and  grains to markets in the country within and beyond the three states.  It facilitates  domestic trade nationwide, thus contributing to the country’s economic development.

The Kano-Dambatta-Daura-Kwangwalam road is part of the Nigerian portion of the Trans-African Highway which on completion will  link the ports in Nigeria’s Atlantic coast and those on the Mediterranean Sea in Algeria. Algeria has reportedly completed its portion of the Highway, while Nigeria and the Republic of Niger have made significant progress in building  their portions.

BUA Group said it has mobilized equipment to the site.  Its Group Executive Director, Alhaji Kabiru Rabiu,  assured Nigerians that the company has the requisite capacity and resources to timely complete the project. He expressed gratitude to  the  Buhari-led  administration for awarding the project to  his organisation.

It is worth noting that several other companies are participating in the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme (RITCS) in other parts of the country. The Scheme  is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) through which  the Federal Government leverages private sector financing for the construction and refurbishment of roads.

Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola stated that projects under the RITCS are  complementing the federal government’s ongoing rail infrastructure projects.

A question: is Cold Recycling with foamed bitumen as used in the reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano section of the A2 route going to be applied by BUA Group in the Miltara-Kwangwalam project?

This and other details on the scope of the work and the expected completion date for the project may be disclosed to the public by the client and the contractors as the work progresses.

Salisu Na’inna Dambatta is a retired Federal Director of Information

 

 

 

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