By Mohammed Baba Busu
National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Commission N- HYPPADEC has pledged to provide solar powered street lights and a borehole at Bina community in Lapai local government area of Niger state.
The commission’s Director of Operations, Engineer Iliyasu Abdullahi Wara made the pledge in an exclusive
interview with journalists after listening to a bitter complain from the community representative in Minna on Monday
He said that the light will provide security for the residents especially at night.
Abdullahi Wara who spoke on behalf of the N- HYPPADEC Managing Director, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa further revealed that the borehole is an intervention to provide a clean portable drinking water to the people of the community.
According to him, this year twenty twenty four the community of Bina will be captured by the commission to benefit from intervention of solar street lights and a borehole as part of their mandate to provide succour to the commission’s communities.
Responding, the Dagacin Bina community, Alhaji Mohammed Umar Bina applauded the management of N-HYPPADEC for the unexpected kind gesture in ameliorating the suffering of the people who were lacking such basic amenities of live over the years however, thanked the commission for the intervention.
It could be recalled that Bina community have been suffering from acute shortage of clean portable drinking water over the years since the broke down of the two boreholes hence the residents have continued to depend on well water for their livelihood.
