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From Desmond Mgboh Kano
No fewer than four communities have been cut off from Kano after a bridge submerged in Fajewa town in Takai Local Government Area of the state .
The collapsed bridge situated about ten kilometers from Takai Local Govt headquarters, affected Fajewa, Birnin Bako, Tumbushi, and Gidan Malam communities in Takai Local Government Area .
A villager, Audu Nabawa told reporters on Monday that the tragedy is negatively affecting their people, adding that it as hindered access to hospitals, markets, schools and other points of regular social activities in the area.
“The bridge collapsed about four weeks ago and the srate government is aware but nothing has been done. The collapse of the bridge has made life difficult for many of us in these villages.
“We can’t go to the markets with our farm products, our children can’t go to islamiyya schools and the sick are stranded at home” he lamented.
“In Fajewa and Gidan Malam alone, we have lost three pregnant women and two elderly men from sickness as a result of the collapsed bridge”, Nabawa alleged while appealing to the state to reconstruct the bridge.
A married seamstress in Birnin Bako village, Mariya Tasi’u regretted that women in the affected towns have no choice but allow themselves to be conveyed by youths to the other end of the rever.
“We have no choice, we need to go to markets and hospitals and neighboring towns to get other basic things and the only way to do so is by crossing the river on the shoulder of one of these boys” she stated.
“They charge an average fee of N200 or N300 for conveying to the other side and if you have a luggage, the price rises to between N500 to N700 ”, she lamented.
Efforts to hear ftom the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, Kano (SEMA), Isyaku Abdullahi Kubarachi or his officials have been unsuccessful as at press time
