By Khaleel Muhammad Hundreds of communities in Jigawa State have been cut off as a result of collapsed bridges and culverts in the S...
By Khaleel Muhammad
Hundreds of communities in Jigawa State have been cut off as
a result of collapsed bridges and culverts in the State.
Director Engineering Services, Jigawa Road Maintenance
Agency, JIRMA, Engr. Yusif Abdullahi stated this while briefing newsmen on the
State’s emergency response to the affected communities.
He said the agency, through the State Ministry of works, was
working on the provision of an alternative to the road users in all the
affected areas.
“We have been working day and night to reclaim some
roads/bridges and reconnect the affected communities.
“Some of the roads damaged included: Dutse-Madobi-Gambarin,
Kiyawa-Jahun-Gujungu, Karnaya-Gabarin, Chaichai-Ringim, Guru Kadara, Kiyawa-
Birnin Kudu, Gwaram-Basirika and Ringim-Gidan Large, among others,” he said.
Yusif explained that the major challenge the agency was
facing was how to access the damaged site and deploy equipment, as flood
continues to wreak havoc in the affected areas.
“Some of the roads were already reclaimed through temporary
measures, some were renovated, while work is going on in some places to provide
alternative or temporary measures before the water subsides for the main work,”
he stated.
Yusif then called on the people of the State to continue
cooperating with the State government as the authority was doing its best to
minimize the difficulties they were facing as a result of the flood and road
collapse across the State.
DAILY POST reports that about sixty people have died, scores
injured, and hundreds of people displaced by flood in the State.
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