Kogi State Commissioner for Finance, Asiwaju Idris Asiru, has donated two million Naira to support a group intervention initiative to make Kabba-Obajana-Lokoja safer for travelers.
Team Asiru Asiwaju Thinks (TAAT), a voluntary group of professionals, made this known in Lokoja on Sunday.
The group’s Director of Information, Dr Adeyemi Emmanuel, who confirmed receipt of the donation, expressed gratitude to Asiwaju Idris Asiru for his love for humanity.
TAAT explained that the intervention on the road that connects the southern and northern parts of Nigeria will seeks to reduce the fatalities recorded on the road.
The planned intervention on the road includes fixing damaged bump, installing warning signs and painting caution signs.
The group added that the road came under review by TAAT due to the many fatalities associated with accidents on the road, which always lead to summersaults, head-on collisions, burning and near zero chances of survival, which the group traced to unmarked and unwarned bumps on the road, which drivers suddenly runs into.
With this development, the Director of Public Events and Personal Assistant to the Initiator, Hon. Temitope Aro, said the people will, henceforth, witness little or no accidents with mild implications on that route and also announced the group’s plan for engaging users through an enlightenment campaign, which will be held along the route after the completion of the intervention.
“Millions of people ply that route every month and are people from all works of life and tribes, while the impact of this uncommon care and Intervention by the Honourable Commissioner can not be measured, says a serving Deputy Commandant of the NSCDC, who is also a member of TAAT.
Dr Kabir, a London-based medical practitioner, who is also a member of TAAT, expressed joy with the development and enjoined other Nigerians to emulate the Initiative and donation, coming at a time when Governor Usman Ododo is 100 days in office.
He emphasised that government alone can not do everything, and charged the team to ensure that an enduring intervention is done and within time.
In conclusion, the Director of Information of the group announced that the initiator of the group will soon brief members of the public on the project, after carrying out its on-the-spot assessment, which is aimed at marrying the design to the reality of the road’s shortcomings.
