Abandoned Jos roads worsened by flood

The prevailing August downpour has worsened the condition of roads in Jos, the Plateau State capital. The erstwhile government gave multi-billion naira road construction and rehabilitation projects which have been abandoned by the contractors. The immediate past administration which was headed by Jonah Jang had in its late days, awarded the multi-billion naira job to […]

The prevailing August downpour has worsened the condition of roads in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
The erstwhile government gave multi-billion naira road construction and rehabilitation projects which have been abandoned by the contractors.
The immediate past administration which was headed by Jonah Jang had in its late days, awarded the multi-billion naira job to PW Nigeria Limited.
The project which touches major parts of the city was partly executed before it was abandoned during the last general elections,  a development which is causing untold hardship to road users because the earth work has turned them into mud sites.
Because of the prevailing downpour sections dug up and abandoned have always pooled up storm waters, thereby eroding the passages, Daily Trust has observed.
Our reporter noted that some parts of the city suffer excessive flooding because heaps of earth block channels that would have collected and emptied the storm waters from the metropolis.
Worst hit are Jonah Jang Way, a dual carriage which was partly executed to provide an intersection from Yakubu Gowon Way, through the highbrow Rayfield and Air Force Station to Old Airport Junction; as well as Yakubu Gowon Way, stretching from Maraban Jama’a to Secretariat Junction. These two roads are linking major parts of the city.
 Road users daily wade through mud or pooled waters at sections of these major ways.
Along Jonah Jang Way, the uncompleted section between Little Rayfield and Bukuru has not only affected traffic flow, it has left a dent on the image of the state as the only link to the new Government House.
Yakubu Gowon Way Old Airport Junction, Secretariat Junction and Miango Junction are badly hit, with motorists preferring to take longer routes to their destinations in order to beat the traffic congestion that has always ensued there because of mud sites and flooding.
“Jos has become virtually impassable on all roads which were awarded for either construction, or rehabilitation. We thought we had a project to end our hardship, but we have now a nightmare,” a motorist said of the abandoned project.
Peter, as he gave his name, appealed to Governor Simon Lalong to hasten up the completion of the project to save other infrastructural provisions in the city from completely breaking down.
Emmanuel Nanle, media aide to the governor confirmed the development but told Daily Trust on phone that the government has already mobilized the contractors back to site to complete the project, naming this as one of the achievements of the first 100 days in office of Lalong.