Travelling from Niger State through Kontagora or Sokoto/Zamfara States through Daki-Takwas, a first timer on the road would never imagine that a city of historical and demographic importance as Zuru will emerge ahead of the unbearable potholes that images in this update partially represent.
To the best of my knowledge, and I travel a lot around to know, hardly do any communities exist in northern Nigeria with road access deprivation like those of Zuru Emirate. Perhaps communities around Gombe-Numan little compare save for the attention the road has been receiving on discussion related to infrastructural deficit and the little physical interventions they brings. The painful thing about the case of Zuru is that the issue of its road is hardly discussed.
In my view, the case of access road around Zuru point to the fact that the meaning and essence of political participation need to be redefined in and for the Emirate at local, state and federal levels. The few diversions of Maga-Ribah and Koko-Dabai are palliatives too meagre to be accepted with any degree of satisfaction.
Dr. Mikail Barau
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