Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has signed into law N149 billion 2012 appropriation bill tagged: “Budget of Infrastructural Development and Economic Transformation” presented to the state House of Assembly on December 29, 2011.

Signing the budget into law on Thursday, at the Council Chamber of the Government House Maiduguri, the governor said, very soon, contracts for massive construction of road networks would be awarded by the state government in order to alleviate the suffering of the people.

The governor stated that contracts for the construction of Miringa-Garubula-Gunda road, Chibok-Damboa-Mbalala road and Damasak-Mallam Fatori road among others, will be awarded by the state executive council next week.

Shettima further said that, as responsible and responsive government, his administration was ready to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people of the state as he promised during his electioneering campaign, adding that citizens of Borno had no business being poor because the state was endowed with both human and material resources.

He said already the state Road Maintenance Agency had over 70 trucks and other road construction equipment, which he said, government was ready to acquire more to meet the needs of various construction projects across the state.

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