Baro port Access Road

THE management of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has expressed concern over the poor access road connected to the N4.2billion nearly completed Baro port in Niger State.
Speaking at the flag off of  the safety awareness campaign at Nupeko in Niger State, NIWA’s Managing Director, Hajia Inna Ciroma, said the port is about 95 percent completed, adding that the inability to access the port by road may bring government’s investment to naught.

Ciroma, who disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Niger State Government House, appealed to governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, to intervene by encouraging the Ministry of Transport to list the access road on its agenda.

The NIWA boss noted that without good roads, the port will not be as effective and efficient as planned. She said “My second prayer has to do with the deplorable road networks leading to Baro River port as the port is nearing completion.

“In fact, the Baro River port has literally been completed, but unfortunately, there are no good access road leading to the port. We plead with his Excellency to use his good office to encourage the Honourable Minister of works to list this very important road in the 2014/2015 appropriation because without a good access road to the port, there will be no way the port will be effective and in its operation.

Finally, we have just commissioned the Onitsha River port in Anambra State and Baro port in Niger State is next in line and it will be the very first River port to be completed in northern Nigeria and may end up being the flagship port for the whole of northern  part of Nigeria”.