The Niger Government has enjoined the public to report any difficulty in using roads across the state to the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure for quick intervention.
Mr Shetima Aliyu, Senior Special Assistant to the state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Suleiman Umaru, gave the advice on Thursday in an interview with the newsmen in Minna.
Many road users across the state have lamented difficulties in accessing some roads due to their failing portions.
This is as a result of mass construction of roads and rehabilitation of existing ones recently embarked on by the state government as part of its urban renewal programme.
Aliyu explained that there was an agreement between the government and the contractors to provide alternative routes for road users on major roads and street roads across the state.
He said that either out of omission or neglect, some of the contractors were not keeping to the contractual terms, hence the need for the public to report such case.
“This morning some people from Bank of Agriculture in Minna came here and reported that they cannot access the main road in their area and we quickly went into action and the contractor quickly made a way for them.
“It is not only in Minna, we have also intervened in Suleja, Kontagora, Bida and other places to make sure that our people enjoy free flow of traffic as a result of the ongoing infrastructure development,” he said.
According to him, government has created committees and supervisors to handle any problem emanating from the project execution.
He appealed to the public to report directly to the ministry, call or send a message to the following phone number; 08035909252 for quick intervention.
Earlier, Malam Usman Mohammed, a tricycle operator in Minna told NAN that the various road diversions has reduced their daily income.
Mohammed said that the measure has led to new routes which passengers and tricycle operators are not used to.
He appealed to the government to smoothen the roads created as alternative routes to save the passengers from the stress of bad roads.
Mr Emmanuel Okpara, a resident of Minna, appealed to the government to do something urgently to ease movement in Minna, especially in Tunga Market and Kasuwan Gwari areas.
Also, Malam Abdulaziz Shuaibu, a resident of Suleja in the state, told newsmen that the contractors handling road projects in the area had failed to construct culverts in many residential areas, to enable the people to access the main roads.
