N-HYPPADEC Starts Needs Assessment, Community Mapping

National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Commission (N-HYPPADEC )has begun ‘Needs Assessment and Community Mapping’ in benefitting areas of the commission.

The managing director, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, who disclosed this during a visit to Wuya- Kede in Mokwa local government area of Niger State yesterday as part of the exercise, sought support from stakeholders.

He urged the communities to cooperate and support  the exercise for the success while  sensitising  the people on its importance in enabling  the commission to include some communities  left out three years ago.

He said the needs assessment and community mapping would assist in knowing the needs of the people, community challenges and their priorities to help the commission with the actual community needs in order to intervene within available resources.

He assured that the commission would always provide short and long-term interventions in alleviating the plight of communities the affected by hydroelectric power producing dams in the country.

While calling on the communities to provide the required and relevant information for the successful implementation of programmes and projects, he pledged to provide seven hand pump boreholes for the seven village head communities out of the fifty-one communities under Wuya-Kede Ward.

Alhaji Sadiq Yelwa said President Bola  Tinubu is a listening leader and was concerned about  the over all development of Nigerians, hence the  immediate survey and assessment status of all the dams to ensure they do not pose threats to the host communities.

Earlier, the district head of Wuya-Kede in Mokwa local government area, Alhaji Musa Abubakar, expressed satisfaction with the visit and called for more intervention in his community which has 51 villages.

He recalled how the villagers lost loved ones, properties, farmlands, animals, schools and health centers to floods, even as they lack potable water.