Investment in dam project will help to diversify our economy, says FG

Date: 2018-03-30

The Federal Government says its investment in dam project will help to diversify the economy through Agriculture.

The Chairman of the newly constituted Board of Directors for the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Alhaji Zakari Idde, said this while inspecting some of the ongoing projects of the Authority in Kwara North Senatorial district of the state.

Alhaji Idde, who led other members of the board to inspect the projects, expressed delight at the level of works done on the projects, describing it as laudable.

He said the projects would help to boost the youth empowerment programme of the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, most especially in the diversification of the economy through Agriculture.

Alhaji Idde explained that the visit afforded the Board the opportunity of familiarising with the activities of the Authority and identify areas where their intervention is needed to fast track the completion of the ongoing projects.

" I am delighted with the level of work done on the ongoing projects. In fact, this is laudable. The projects will help to boost the youth empowerment programme of the present administration and most importantly, the diversification of the economy through Agriculture"

"This visit afforded the Board members of the Authority, the opportunity of familiarising themselves with the activities of the Lower Niger River Basin Authority and see where our intervention is needed to fast track the completion of the projects", Alhaji Idde said.

While taking the Board members round the site of the Yashikira dam project , the Managing Director of the Authority, Engineer Adeniyi Saheed Aremu said the Dam has one million cubic metre of water capacity and on completion it is expected to irrigate twenty five hectares of farm land.

Engineer Saheed-Aremu noted that the Dam is also expected to supply water to the host community and its environs.

At Gure Dam, the Managing Director said the Dam, which is at forty percent completion stage also has one million cubic metre of water capacity and on completion it is expected to irrigate two hundred hectares of farm land which can be reviewed to five hundred hectares in the nearest future.

Other members of the Board that visited the site include, Hyacinth Okpara Dike, Augustine Muomaife, Sidi Aliyu Lamido, Abdullahi A. Baba and Adeniyi Bodunrin Kunle.

 

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