MAKARFI, Nigeria, — Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani says his administration is constructing 140 road projects across the state’s 23 local government areas, covering a combined 1,335 kilometres across the three senatorial districts, as he commissioned a newly completed asphalt road linking Durum and Kuruntumawa communities in Makarfi Local Government Area.
Speaking at the commissioning on Saturday, the governor said the road programme was conceived and initiated by his government and would be executed to “standard quality,” while also pledging to complete road projects inherited from previous administrations.
Uba Sani said he first visited Kuruntumawa in September 2025 to perform the groundbreaking for the Durum–Kuruntumawa project, presenting the road’s completion within months as evidence of his administration’s focus on underserved rural corridors.
“For many years, this community endured the consequences of poor road infrastructure,” he said, describing persistent hardships for farmers moving produce, traders facing higher transport costs, students travelling on unsafe routes, and families struggling to reach healthcare facilities. He argued the new link is more than “concrete and tar,” but a route intended to improve market access, school commuting and timely medical care.
The governor said Makarfi was among 12 local governments that had not received “even a single kilometre” of road construction in the past 12 years, and framed the commissioning as part of a broader rural transformation pledge aimed at balancing development between urban and rural communities.
He also announced that the Makarfi General Hospital, which he said had been abandoned, has been remodelled and fitted with modern equipment, adding that it would be commissioned “in the next few weeks.”
Kaduna’s Secretary to the State Government, Dr AbdulKadir Mu’azu Meyere, said residents had requested the road during the 2023 campaign, and that the project’s delivery contrasted with “decades” of unmet promises by prior administrations. The Makarfi council chairman, Garba Muhammad Sabon Gari, said the area had benefited from multiple interventions, citing electricity restoration and the rapid award-to-completion timeline for the road
