Kakatar Engineering Limited, the contractor handling the Apo-Karshi project, said the road “has already attained 89 per cent completion” and pledged to complete the remaining 11 per cent within five months

The 13.25 kilometre Apo-Karshi road project was conceived as an alternative route to ease the gridlock experienced on a daily basis by workers and people driving to the capital city from the Mararaba-Nyanya axis.

The project has suffered delay due to an error in the design whereby a huge rock outcrop on the alignment of the road corridor became very difficult to deal with. 

On an inspection tour on Saturday, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) threatened to sanction the contractor over continued delay in the completion of work.

Comrade Ogwuebu Francis, Coordinator, Satellite Towns Development Department STDD issued the threat when he addressed newsmen.

Mr Francis, however, applauded the progress of work at the Karshi Dam project site.

The coordinator expressed concern over the attitude of some contractors delaying the completion of projects considered very dear to people

He berated the contractor handling the Karshi-Apo road, saying he had no reason to delay the completion of the project since the government had played its part.

According to him, the last payment tranche has already been processed and may hit the contractor’s account any moment.

He described the Apo-Karshi road as one of the legacy projects of the President Muhammad Buhari Administration and should be given the necessary priority by ensuring timely completion

He explained that the Karshi road would help decongest traffic on the Asokoro-Keffi road as people living in Nyanya, Karu, Jikwoyi, Gida Daya, and Orozo would have alternative and easy access to town when completed.

Meanwhile, land grabbers at Gida Daya community have been advised to desist from encroaching on the proposed Nyanya relocation site. Mr Francis noted that development control bulldozers would soon move to the area preparatory to correcting the anomaly created their by illegal occupants.

(NAN)