By Stephen Ojo
The Managing Director, National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Commission N-HYPPADEC Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa has assured communities of equitable distribution of interventional projects based on their priority needs.
The managing director stated this during official visit to Wuya- Kede in Mokwa local government area of Niger state on Friday.
He explained that the commission has embarked on needs assessment and community mapping exercise to assist in knowing the needs of the people, adding that the exercise is to sensitized the people and captured those communities that were left out three years ago when it was first conducted.
He said that the needs assessment and community mapping exercise will assist the commission in prioritizing the actual needs as obtained from the communities in order to intervene within the available resources.
He said, “The commission is optimistic and ready to always provide short and long term interventions in alleviating the plight of the communities affected by the hydro electric power producing dams”.
He therefore called on the communities to provide the required and relevant information needed for the successful execution of people oriented projects while pledging to provide seven hand pump boreholes for seven village heads out of the fifty one communities under Wuya-Kede Ward.
Speaking earlier, the District Head of Wuya-Kede in Mokwa local government area of Niger state, Alhaji Musa Abubakar expressed satisfaction with the interventions of the commission in the communities, adding that,
the impact of flooding over the years that had resulted in the lost of many lives, properties, farmlands,.
He said, ” I want to specially commend the commission for the numerous achievements recorded so far while also calling for its sustainability for the overall development of the entire communities under the N-HYPPADEC”.