Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government has provided internal road networks in 46 tertiary institutions across the country.
Fashola said this while inaugurating the rehabilitated and reconstructed link roads at the Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic Kazaure in Jigawa.
The minister, represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Jigawa, Atewolara Oladele, said 29 of the roads were completed in 2021, while 17 others were ready for handover to the institutions.
He said the ministry was attending to 30 roads in various tertiary institutions across the country, making 76, the total number of the road projects.
According to him, about 200 people were directly employed in the road rehabilitation and reconstruction exercise at the polytechnic.
Fashola urged the polytechnic management to ensure proper maintenance of the roads.
In his remarks, Rector of the Polytechnic, Sabo Wada, said the roads were in a deplorable state for long before the intervention by the federal government.
