The Adamawa Government is to construct 500 kilometres of feeder roads in 20 communities across the state.
The Commissioner for Rural Infrastructure and Community Development, Ahaji Aminu Iyawa, disclosed this on Monday in Yola.
Iyawa spoke while receiving the newly-elected executive members of Adamawa Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ who paid him a courtesy visit.
He said that the measure was to further open up the rural areas and to fast tract development at the grassroots level.
He said that government would also ensure the resuscitation of all the 22 abandoned rural electrification projects in some communities and speed up the completion of on-going ones supervised by his ministry.
He also announced the resuscitation of the community development section of the ministry to promote self-help projects by communities in the state.
The commissioner said that government alone could not adequately meet the growing developmental needs of the people.
He urged the communities to be supporting themselves through self-help projects.
Iyawa announced that government was willing to contribute 50 per cent of any amount expended on self-help projects executed by any community in the state.
He urged journalists to enlighten the people on the government’s policy on self-help projects and the need to safeguard government projects in their communities.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel, Malam Usman Madaki, said the chapel executives were on a familiarisation visit and to congratulate the commissioner as a colleague over his new appointment.
Madaki assured the commissioner of media support and urged him to handle his new job diligently “to make a mark”. (NAN)