National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC) has expended the sum of N200 million on abandoned Mana Water Works to improve Water supply to Bida and other areas of Niger South.
Managing director of the commission Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa disclosed this when he led a team of professionals from the commission and the Niger State Ministry of Water Resources to the waterworks.
He said the resuscitation and expansion works on the project which will cost over N200 million was part of the commission’s intervention in the area of water supply to Hydro power producing areas.
He disclosed that Bida town and environs have been battling with acute water shortage, saying that the project will not only end water shortage but check the spread of water-borne diseases,
While expressing satisfaction with the quality of work so far, the managing director disclosed that the project has reached a 60 percent completion stage.
The managing director applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration’s commitment to the N- N-HYPPADEC communities in the country.
The project Engineer Amidu Muhammad hinted that the project was initially awarded by the state government in 2017 at over N100 million but was abandoned till the recent intervention of N-HYPPADEC, saying that when completed, it will be able to treat 10,000 cubic meters per hour to ease the suffering of about two million beneficiaries.
