Wike Begins Construction Of 10.5km Kabusa-Ketti Road

Relief is coming the way of residents of Ketti Community as the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, begins the construction of a 10.5km Kabusa-Ketti road to alleviate the plight of the people.

During the flag off ceremony in Abuja, the Minister also promised to construct a new Senior Secondary School in Ketti community, to enable those that finished their Junior Secondary School to complete their education.

Wike explained that the commencement of the rural road construction was a testament that the present Administration is determined to bridge infrastructural gap towards meeting the yearnings of the rural dwellers.

He assured adequate funding for timely completion of the road project, which, he said, would be commissioned during President Tinubu’s second year anniversary in office.

According to Wike, the ongoing road construction in the satellite towns were being executed along side the installation of streetlights.

“For the first time, you can see we are providing roads and, at the same time, providing streetlights”.

Wike also said efforts were ongoing security wise to make life comfortable for the rural dwellers to have a safe space for farming and other businesses.

The Acting Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority ,FCDA, Mr. Richard Dauda said the road project, which is designed to be delivered in six months, would enhance connectivity and address issues of insecurity in the area.

Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council ,AMAC, Mr. Christopher Maikalangu who said the dilapidating state of the road had been a hotspot for criminals and kidnappers in the past, lauded the intervention of Wike whom he described as a ” Game changer and Transformer”.

According to him, the new road would reduce such risks and revitalize socio-economic activities in the area.

“This is where our royal father was kidnapped and killed because the road was very difficult for security operatives to access, Maikalangu said.”

Remi Johnson, Edited By Grace Namiji