- As Passengers Get Stranded On The Road
By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)
Heavy downpour, last Sunday morning, has again cut off the Bauchi-Gombe most popular highway, leaving thousands of travellers on the busy road stranded.
The development has forced most of the travellers to cancel their trips and return to their bases while others had to change their route through Dukku to Bauchi State.
Some of travellers interviewed by NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent, lamented that although the bridge caved in three times last year, the governments of Bauchi and Gombe States have failed to repair it to make it stronger and passable because it is a federal highway.
They revealed that the collapsed bridge was only being managed by local contractor's with pieces of rocks, which they pointed out, provided temporary succour for people to pass
It will be recalled that the bridge along Gombe-Bauchi Road at Bara village has been collapsing repeatedly every rainy season, disrupting movements to and from the two neighbouring states.
However, the governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, had recently stated that the federal government intended to rebuild the dilapidated road in the next six months.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent reports that the Dukku-Bauchi road is another dilapidated and long road to follow. NNL.
