By Awwal Umar Kontagora The New Hydropower Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPADDEC) has procured starter packs worth N2 billion...
By Awwal Umar Kontagora
The New Hydropower Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPADDEC) has procured starter packs worth N2 billion to be distributed to unemployed youths in its catchment states.
Managing Director, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq-Yelwa, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Minna.
Sadiq-Yelwa said, “These packs will soon be delivered to the commission and they will be distributed thereafter.
“The distribution is expected to be inaugurated by the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, in Minna and will also be launched in the various states by the wives of the Governors,” he said.
Sadiq-Yelwa also said that the commission was working hard to complete and inaugurate the resettlement schemes in Muregi and Ketso in Niger and Kogi.
He said, “We have paid attention to facilitating the construction of the housing scheme in Muregi, Ketso, and Shiroro areas in Niger and Kogi.
"We decided to do that in order to prepare our minds for the challenges that will come forth as a result of the heavy rainfall some of our communities are likely to witness,” the MD said.
This, he said, was in view of the likely flooding in some of the riverine communities in the commission's catchment states.
The MD said the commission was working hard to complete and inaugurate a drainage scheme in Agaie, Niger, for some communities being threatened by River Kaduna.
“There are certain villages in that Agaie local government that the River Kaduna is trying to upset and we are trying to see what we can do about that.
"This is an effort to provide succour and prepare for the flood with appropriate channels so that it will not be causing havoc to that community any longer.
“We will appropriately channel the expedited floodwaters, hence saving the lives and properties of the residents of the affected communities.
"We have also completed the programme of providing about 70 blocks of three classrooms for 70 communities in different parts of the HYPADDEC states.
“We are also on the verge of furnishing those schools and will soon hand them over to those communities. We have also commissioned the Koton Karfe drainage scheme and another community in Benue.”
Sadiq-Yelwa said that the commission had inaugurated the Barkin Ladi Mobile Police Base to provide security to that community that was always threatened by the activities of bandits.
He further stated that the commission has also facilitated efforts to complete the Patigi drainage scheme in Kwara, adding that it has reached 90 percent completion and that they were hoping to inaugurate it in August this year.
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