Biu-Gombe road: A traveller''s nightmare

The Biu-Gombe road is a traveller’s ‎nightmare in the real sense of the word. Biu is in Borno state. Its a federal road. The 120 kilometre road was built in the 1970s but more than three decades after, it has failed, woefully. ‎Aisha Birma who recently travelled on the road told Daily Trust it took […]

The Biu-Gombe road is a traveller’s ‎nightmare in the real sense of the word. Biu is in Borno state. Its a federal road.

The 120 kilometre road was built in the 1970s but more than three decades after, it has failed, woefully.

‎Aisha Birma who recently travelled on the road told Daily Trust it took her four hours to traverse the road which "should take about one hour."

She said: "The road is a death trap. ‎My village is about 30 minutes drive to Biu but it takes a life time to get there".

The reconstruction of the road was allegedly awarded to a Chinese firm some two years ago ‎but work stopped when a Chinese who was the contractor and a Nigerian were killed by Boko Haram insurgents.

Relative peace has since returned to that parts of the states.