FG Commissions And Hands Over To Katsina State Government A 21 Year Old Sabke Dam, Dutsi And Mashi Water Supply Scheme
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The Federal Government has completed and handed over to Katsina state government a 21 year old Sabke Dam located in Mai’adua Local Government Area (LGA) of the state for onward management usage for water supply and irrigation.
The Federal Government also commissioned along with the dam, the Dutsi and Mashi water schemes for water supply with each having the capacity to provide about 250,000 gallons of treated water to the two communities and its environs.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, who commissioned the projects alongside other Federal Government dignitaries, said the three plants have a combined capacity to serve over 100,000 people daily in the communities.
Correspondent Folashade Abdulsalami reports that the minister also noted that Sabke dam, with a capacity to provide one million gallons of potable water to Daura and Mai’adua communities, was initiated in 1998 by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) but abandoned until last year when it was re-awarded for completion.
The minister further disclosed that the Federal Government has provided for the construction of 38 borehole schemes to serve all the villages along the Sabke-Daura water transmission pipelines noting that it is the constitutional responsibility of the three tiers of government to provide portable water for its citizens in the rural areas.
Earlier, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the commissioning of these projects fit into the administration’s ongoing agenda to showcase the achievements of the Buhari led administration, especially in the area of infrastructural development.
He said the commissioning of the water projects would be the second in a week done by the APC government after the one in Edo State last Thursday.
However the Katsina State governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mustapha Inuwa, pledged that the state will ensure maintenance and sustainability of the projects for long term usage.
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