No community should suffer for national development – Tinubu as he commissions Airport Bypass Road in Abuja

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday, declared that nary Nigerian assemblage should beryllium made a unfortunate of nationalist development, arsenic helium commissioned the 7-kilometre entree roadworthy bypassing the 2nd runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from Bill Clinton Drive to Tungan Madaki Settlement, completed with a four-span span successful Abuja.

Represented by Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, astatine the commissioning ceremony, Tinubu said the task was designed to close years of neglect suffered by communities that sacrificed their ancestral lands for the operation of the airport’s 2nd runway, but were near without basal roadworthy infrastructure.

According to the President, the recently completed roadworthy is not simply a proscription task but a strategical economical corridor that volition amended information astir the airport, easiness postulation congestion and unlock improvement opportunities for residents of Tungan Madaki and adjoining communities.

He recalled that erstwhile the request arose to conception the airport’s 2nd runway, big communities willingly surrendered their lands successful the nationalist interest.

“Yet, for years, the paradox remained. These patriotic communities gave up onshore for ...