Zamfara Agency Targets Agrarian Communities, Link Health Facilities

The director-general (DG) of Rural Access Roads Agency (RARA), Engr. Haruna Dikko Gusau, has said that the agency is now set to create and improve connectivity, access to agrarian communities, healthcare facilities, and emergency services, and to enhance socio-economic growth in the state.

Speaking during a brief interview yesterday in his office at Samaru, Gusau, the new DG of RARA, Engr. Haruna Dikko Gusau, said the salient aim of creating the Rural Access Roads Agency (RARA) is to build road infrastructure, bridges, and culverts, to enable equal development in the localities, and to bring people in rural areas closer to the programmes and policies of the state government.

“As a leader of this dream manifestation team, the first of its kind, creatively instituted by the visionary governor of Zamfara state Dr. Dauda Lawal, “my major duty is to ensure the realization of the good ambition of His Excellency in reaching out to the rural areas and making roads accessible for easy transportation of goods & services for the promotion of socio- economic growth among our people”.

He added He recalled that, since the inception of his administration, Governor Dauda Lawal’s “Rescue Mission” agenda for the State has centred on six key pillars designed to revitalise the State, with a primary focus on security, agricultural transformation, educational reform, and infrastructure development. His administration aims to transform the State into an agro-industrial hub while securing more investments.

“This cannot be done in the urban areas alone. His Excellency saw the people in the rural areas as major stakeholders in the execution of his administration’s agenda, hence the creation of RARA,” he said.

Again, “The sincere implementation of the six-point agenda cannot be completed without gaining access to the people in the rural areas who also deserve to feel the impact of the administration of the visionary Governor, Dr Dauda Lawal”.

“Strategically, Roads, Culverts, and Bridges may first be created in hard-to-reach areas to create access to the several people living in those areas.

“RARA will provide possible avenues for the locals to have easy access to several agricultural, educational, and healthcare facilities made available by the people’s administration of Governor Dauda Lawal in our localities.

“In addition to providing easy access for various security personnel in the event of emergencies in rural areas. With RARA, farmers in our localities will have it easy to bring their farm produce to market, and investors will be able to penetrate our rural areas and invest in farming to increase food security within and outside the State.

“Zamfara people will stand a chance of appreciating the good works of Governor Dauda Lawal’s led administration because, the large farm products produced by farmers in the rural areas will now be moved to our urban markets with lesser efforts and providing the local farmers with reserved energy for more productivity and the consumers in the urban areas and other parts of the country, availability of the food at affordable prices.

“RARA focuses on planning, development, and implementation of programs and policies that would improve the lives of people living in rural areas,” he maintained.

The DG described the unity of the past and current governors of the State as a great opportunity to pursue better outcomes for the State and expand the administration’s scope for greater achievements.

He lauded the leadership acumen of Governor Dauda Lawal, describing him as an Excellent Personality and a creative leader who is determined to promote and administer his people with honour and to provide deliverable projects characterised by quality and cost-effectiveness.

He reiterated the call for everyone in the State to come together in unity to promote peace and social cohesion and ensure the return of Governor Dauda Lawal for a second term in 2027.