President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday, declared that no Nigerian community should be made a victim of national development, as he commissioned the 7-kilometre access road bypassing the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from Bill Clinton Drive to Tungan Madaki Settlement, completed with a four-span bridge in Abuja.
Represented by Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, at the commissioning ceremony, Tinubu said the project was designed to correct years of neglect suffered by communities that sacrificed their ancestral lands for the construction of the airport’s second runway, but were left without basic road infrastructure.
According to the President, the newly completed road is not merely a transportation project but a strategic economic corridor that will improve security around the airport, ease traffic congestion and unlock development opportunities for residents of Tungan Madaki and adjoining communities.
He recalled that when the need arose to construct the airport’s second runway, host communities willingly surrendered their lands in the national interest.
“Yet, for years, the paradox remained. These patriotic communities gave up land for airplanes to fly, yet they had no motorable roads for their own feet and vehicles. They were cut off.
“Let me state this clearly; no citizen should be made a victim of national development. When the Honourable Minister of the FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike, brought this matter to my attention, my directive was clear and unequivocal: ‘Whatever the communities ask for to make their lives whole, give it to them.’ We do not just take; we build, we
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