NAN-H-24
Road
By Mercy Osajiugo
Lapai (Niger), Dec. 21, 2017 (NAN) The Students’ Union of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai in Niger State, has called on Niger State Government to rehabilitate the Paiko-Lapai Road in the state.
The President of the union, Mr Abubakar Mamud, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lapai on Thursday.
Mamud said that the road was in a deplorable state and rehabilitating them would facilitate easy movement of students.
“If the road is in good condition, the journey from Paiko to Lapai will not be more than 25 minutes,’’ he said.
He said that the deplorable state of the road had made it a journey of one hour.
Mamud said that transporters collected high fares from passengers due to the bad state of the road.
The student leader also decried the incessant armed robbery attacks on students plying the road.
“When the road is repaired, it will reduce the number of accidents.
“My predecessors had solicited government’s intervention on the rehabilitation of the road but up till now no meaningful thing has been done,’’ he said.
Mamud said that the poor state of the road was particularly worrying in view of the fact that both students and lecturers use the road from Minna on daily basis.
The union’s president also urged the university management to repair the road from the university’s second gate to Lapai in order to ease the movement of students.
“The road from the second gate that leads to town has been abandoned by the management.
“The management should understand that 80 per cent of the students use that road because they live off campus,’’ he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Adeleye Ajayi/Grace Yussuf