World Bank, Kano to construct 6,300km rural roads

By Rosemary Iwuala

The Kano State Government has initiated a partnership with the World Bank and French Development Agency aimed at constructing 6,300km of rural roads across the state.

Yahaya GarinAli, director-general, Kano State Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project, announced this while declaring open a five-day training for 152 enumerators on Data Collection, Strategies and Recording of RAAMP road features in the state.

A statement by Adamu Abdullahi, development communication specialist, RAAMP Project, obtained on Wednesday, said GarinAli reiterated the government’s commitment towards improving access roads and agricultural infrastructural development in the state.

”The director-general, therefore, urged the participants to look into the assignment as their contribution to the state which requires ardent dedication and commitment to commensurate with efforts of the state government on improving the lives of the citizenry,” the statement said.

On his part, Sunusi Suleiman, the state project coordinator, described the training as a fulfillment of the requirements by the World Bank to operationalise the use of Nigeria Rural Transport Infrastructure Management System software designed to help monitor progress of work during construction.

Suleiman further explained that the aim of the training was to teach the enumerators the function of the NiRTMS using the software application to track rural roads network as well as record engineering, environmental and social features including schools, mosques, markets, settlements, farmlands, among others.