Dirt roads trouble Nasarawa varsity students

Government sponsored road construction projects there have for long been abandoned.Many dirt roads and line drains running through the state-owned university are in disrepair with wet season worsening the condition of the broken infrastructure there. Only a few roads in NSUK are paved. Findings show that many of these roads were constructed when the campus accommodated […]

Government sponsored road construction projects there have for long been abandoned.
Many dirt roads and line drains running through the state-owned university are in disrepair with wet season worsening the condition of the broken infrastructure there.
 Only a few roads in NSUK are paved. Findings show that many of these roads were constructed when the campus accommodated the School of Preliminary Studies (SPS), which facilities the state university inherited upon establishment in 2002.
These roads have hardly attracted maintenance all these years.
The main road leading into the university, off Keffi-Akwanga Road is ridden with craters, right from the point of departure from the federal highway at the gate.
A drive into the university brings the visitor face to face with even the worst of the conditions.
Government awarded contract to Peakmash Nigeria Limited to pave the roads in September of 2012.
Close to two years after, works are at earth level, just as indications are that it might have been abandoned because the contractors have not been seen on site since last year.
State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Engr. Wada Mohammed Yahaya confirmed that works on the roads were supposed to have been completed by now.
According to him, the stone-base, asphalt and concrete line drains projected for construction later attracted some designing as soon as the contractors picked up the job, compelling the delay.
 Mohammed said the redesign brought up a new aspect on the project, to raise up the height of a culvert between the university gate and a roundabout, to accommodate the volume of water at a valley there.
He said this, among other new designs added to the initial project being supervised by Nasarawa Urban Development Board NUDB), brought about the delay.
He promised the state government will speed up the job to completion.