Cargo Airport In Nasarawa State Ready For Flag-Off By President Buhari

Governor Tanko Umar Al-Makura has announced that the Cargo Airport around Keffi in the state is now 60 percent completed and ready for flag-off by President Muhammadu Buhari when he pay official visit to the state soon.
“On the cargo airport, that is one of the project we hope Mr. President will commission. The cargo airport which is very critical in the development of Nasarawa State and also the corridor of the federal capital Territory and also to promote the diversification initiative of Mr. President to boost economic activities like trade. The airport is 60 percent completed and we intend for Mr. President to flag off the terminal building of the project.”
Governor Al-Makura, who fielded questions from newsmen shortly after a closed-door meeting with Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Buhari, said that he request to the President to visit his state has been approved which was why “I have come to discuss the details with the Chief of Staff.”
He said that the President will commission many projects that are aimed at well being of the common man.
“The most basic and the most sensitive, which we think the people should be considered is the comprehensive special school for people with disability. This is likely to be the largest single school in the whole of the federation that caters for all categories of people with disability. From cerebral palsy popularly known as autism to people with vision impairment, hearing impairment and even physical impairment like the cripples.
“That school is supposed to cater for the education of children with disability right from kindergarten stage up to senior secondary. This will give tremendous amount of relief to parents who have children living with disability, whose education could not go beyond certain level.
“That school is like a premier institution which an admit people not only within Nasarawa State or north-central zone but all over the country. But what is more, that’s for free.
“This we have decided to do in line with Mr. President’s focus and vision and manifesto of our party.”
Governor Al-Makura recalled that the last time President Buhari visited Nasarawa state during the electioneering campaign, he met with people living with disability and made irrevocable commitment to look after their welfare.
“I as one of the frontline CPC then and APC governors had to see what to be done to ensure the fulfillment of such promise.
“Secondly, Mr. President, we are hoping, will have time to look at people oriented projects like roads that we have constructed and bypass where a lot of accidents are taking place, like Lafia to Keffi or to Abuja. We have reduced the hours on road by about 50 minutes, that is not a small thing that the people are enjoying.”
“We have a primary health care center that is suppose to be a center for providing services within and around areas that are deprived of health services. This is the first of its kind in the country, and we are talking with the federal ministry of health and primary health care Development agency at the national level so that this will be one of the items Mr. President will commission.
“There are also some water projects, a number of them that I cannot mention right now.”

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