Activist slams FG over neglect, poor funding of Lokoja-Abuja road

A Kogi-born governmental activist, Usman Okai Austin, has called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to springiness the Lokoja-Abuja road the aforesaid level of attraction and backing arsenic the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.

Speaking to journalists successful Anyigba, Kogi State, Okai expressed interest implicit the dilatory advancement of enactment connected the road, accusing the Federal Government of awarding parts of the task to contractors helium described arsenic inexperienced and poorly supervised.

He urged Tinubu to instruct the Minister of Works to transportation the contracts to reputable operation companies with the instrumentality and capableness to implicit the project.

He besides called for regular backing to guarantee that enactment progresses without further delays.

“Commuters are suffering. People are spending nights trapped betwixt Lokoja and Abuja, yet this is the large artery connecting the Federal Capital Territory to the confederate portion of the country,” Okai said.

The activistic recalled that the astir 200-kilometre road was archetypal awarded successful 2006, towards the extremity of erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration.

The project, which was divided into seve...