Sanda said the terrorists, who seized 12 different road construction equipment, also had in their custody earth-moving machines/plants and brand new Hilux pickups, which were trapped in areas under the control of the violent sect.
He said this during the familiarisation visit to BORMA and inspection of some ongoing roads and drainage projects in the state by the new Commissioner for Works, Mr. Usman Zannah.
Sanda lamented that this had stopped the work on some road projects.
The Permanent Secretary also enumerated shortages of working implements and low staff morale as part of problems militating against the agency’s completion desire to complete rural roads across the state.
He pointed out that despite these challenges, the agency under the present administration, had successfully executed and completed road projects with improvement of the Gamboru-Ngala federal road, roads and drainages at Tudun Wada, Bulumkutu, Maduganari wards of the Maiduguri metropolis and the Miringa- Garbula-Gur road in Biu Local Government Area and numerous rural roads across the state.
Zannah sympathised with those who lost their loved ones as a result of the Boko Haram activities and prayed that God would grant them eternal and quick recovery for the injured.
The commissioner added that Governor Ibrahim Shettima’s administration had the highest number of rural roads under construction since the history of the state, especially the ongoing construction of roads and drainage in difficult terrains in the state.
Zannah attributed this to adequate funding and prudent management of scarce resources at the disposal of the state government.
Source: Punch
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