The bridge is strategic for being the only link between northern Adamawa on that side and neighboring southern Borno. It is highly valued by the people in those areas, hence the anxiety about the bridge remaining passable. The Michika-Madagali highway, on which the faulty bridge is situated, is a riverine plain with many bridges, three of which were bombed at one time by Boko Haram terrorists, while a couple of others were washed away by floods.
Except for the faulty Wagga Madagali bridge and one other nearby that has yet to be fully rehabilitated, the rest of the damaged bridges were fixed over time by either the Adamawa State government or the interventionist agency, the North East Development Commission . The NEDC, which visited the Wagga Madagali bridge on Friday as part of its tour of its projects in Adamawa State, assured that it would be fixed in no long time.