The Deputy Governor of Gombe State, Manassah Daniel Jatau, Ph.D on Tuesday 13th September, 2022 played host to the management of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) in his office has he used the opportunity to challenge NBRRI on bad roads across the country, especially the Federal roads linking Gombe State with the other Northern States.
The Deputy Governor described the state of Federal roads linking Gombe State as calamitous but expressed delight that the meeting by the Institute in Gombe State would provide solutions in mitigating the pains of travelers. He said “You cannot believe that the road leading to Bauchi has a collapsed bridge, the one leading through Bauchi is also collapsed leaving commuters in a hardship situation. I urge you to do research on the road and bridge since you are here for a meeting.
Every road has its peculiarity, and every society has its peculiarities”.
Speaking further in appreciating the institute, Dr. Daniel stated “You are doing very well in executing projects, let the public know what you are doing. Let people know that you are collaborating with Gombe State and impacting positively in the lives of the people”
Stressing further, he explained that Gombe State has a lot of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) who migrated from other states of the North-East that are ravaged by insurgency. He also spoke on the measures the state government had undertaken in addressing the issue of clustering of IDPs in one place as he says, “You can go round the state and will not see a single IDP, this is because we have deliberately avoided keeping them in Camps, but integrated them in the society, so as to avoid stigmatization like it was with them in colony of lepers”.
He appreciated the visit and urged NBRRI’s management to go round the state and see for themselves the transformation drive of their administration.
Speaking earlier, the Director-General/CEO of NBRRI Engr. Prof. Samson Duna, said the institute has a mandate and a constitutional role to carry out researches on areas of building, roads, and construction. He explained that, the institute has offices in each of the six geopolitical zones, with the North-East Office sited in Gombe State being the center of the North-East.
Prof. Duna further explained that, the institute’s presence is felt in almost all the local governments in the state through building of schools using NBRRI’s technology, construction of roads, erosion control, skills acquisition centres, among others. He noted that, the institute is constructing their permanent office in the state capital that is almost 40% completion, and used the opportunity to appreciate the Governor for allocating the plot of land for the office. He commended the Governor for the peace, security and infrastructural development of the state which attracts visitors to the state.
The DG/CEO who was presented with the ten-year Gombe Development Plan and three-year score card of the administration of Governor Muhummadu Inuwa Yahaya’s administration, came in company of the Honourable Commissioner, Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr. Aishatu Umar Maigari.