Eunice Afolabi
The Sokoto State Government has approved the sum of N5.8 billion for various contracts to mitigate flood disasters in the state.
A breakdown indicates that over N4.5 billion will be spent on roads and bridges affected by floods while N520 million would be spent on the augmentation of urban infrastructure projects.
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In the same vain, N467 million will be spent on the procurement of drilling materials with an additional N325 million earmarked for the variation of two rural infrastructures’ contracts.
These came as a result of the state executive council meeting presided over by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.
The council also deliberated on the field surveys presently being undertaken by experts in Goronyo and Kebbe Local Government Areas (LGAs) to assess the extent of damage of some of the roads and bridges to award contracts for their reconstruction soonest.
According to a statement signed by the media adviser to the governor, Muhammad Bello, the roads are 66.8 kilometers Kagara-Goronyo; and 32 kilometers Kebbe-Tambuwal, in Goronyo and LGAs respectively.
The statement further disclosed that the state commissioner of rural development, Alhaji Isah Bajini Galadanchi, said the sum of N1.3 billion would be spent on the construction of the n Sarki-Gawon Gulbi road and bridge washed away by flood in Tambuwal local government area.
An additional N3.5 billion was approved for the reconstruction of the Binji-Silame-Grande road; and Wurno- Huchi road, all of which had bridges washed off by the flood.
Similarly, the council also approved the provision of streetlights at the sites of the ongoing two flyovers being constructed by the state government at Runjin Sambo and Rijiyar Dorowa, within Sokoto metropolis, at the cost of over N109 million each.
More streetlights proposed for the completed intra-city Waziri Abbas and Maituta roads will gulp N222 million and N80 million respectivelyBeijingni added that the council approved the sum of N262 million as a variation for the hitherto awarded contract of N475 million for the 14 km Tsaki- Lambo- feeder road, which total cost now stands at over N738 million.
There was also a deviation of N63 million on the Kwanar Kimba-Zamau road which was initially awarded at the cost of over N262 million but will now gulp over N376 million.
Finally, The council approved the purchase of drilling materials to simplify operations of the state’s three functional rigs, used for drilling boreholes across the state, at the cost of over N467 million.
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