‘Lagos-Shagamu, Abuja-Kano road projects critical parts of trans-saharan highway’

Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, Julius Berger MD, Engr. Dr. Lars Richter, the Secretary-General of the TRLC Ayudi Mohammed, and other Ministers of Works of Algeria, Mali, Niger, T’chad, Tunisia at the Julius Berger Abuja-Kano Road site recently.  

President Mohammadu Buhari had at the 70th session of the Trans-Saharan Road Liaison Committee (TRLC) expressed his administration’s resolve to boost Nigeria’s road infrastructure to ease the cost of doing business among others.

He said, “Our commitment is to increase Nigeria’s road infrastructure in order to ease the cost and time of doing business and improve our economic competitiveness as envisaged under our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. In view of this, our administration shares the aspiration of the trans-Saharan Road Liaison Committee aimed at encouraging member-countries’ development of the sections of trans-Saharan roads within their respective territories”.

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, following in the president’s assurance, also promised  Nigerians that Trans-Saharan highway projects would be completed to provide for and improve regional, economic and cultural integration in Africa.

Fashola, who gave the assurance recently at the Julius Berger site of the Abuja-Kano Road works when he led the members of the Trans-Saharan Road Liaison Committee (TRLC) to the project site. The members who were attending the 70th Session of of the Trans-Saharan Road Liaison Committee (TRLC) in Abuja included ministers of works from all six member states of the TRLC, including Algeria, Mali, Niger, T’chad, Tunisia and Nigeria. The Secretary-General of the TRLC, Ayudi Mohammed and the Tunisian envoy, Ambassador JalelTrabelsi were also in the contingent led by Mr Fashola to the AKR site.

Fashola said:“It is very useful for every African to be aware of the existence of a trans-African highway plan which seeks to connect the whole of Africa right from Cape Town up to Tunisia, either by driving through the East African border, or the West African border or through the centre of Africa. There is a coast to coast connectivity from the West to the East of Africa to the Northeast of Africa to the Northwest of Africa, and the South-west of Africa to East Africa.”

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