LG Electrifies Three Villages With N64m

Goronyo Local Gov
ernment in Sokoto State has spent N64 million to provide electricity to three villages in 2013, the Chairman, Alhaji Faruk Yar-Rimawa, has said.
Yar-Rimawa told newsmen in Sokoto that the projects were sited in Boyekai, Sabon Garin-Boyekai and Tsohuwa villages.
He said that already, the projects had been inaugurated, and called on the beneficiaries to protect the installation.
The chairman particularly urged community leaders to sensitise the people on owning projects provided them by government by protecting them against vandals.
“The council administration would not take it lightly with any community that failed to safe guard government’s property located in their locality.
“We must develop the habit of seeing government’s property as our own, for the overall political growth of our society,” he said.
The chairman also called for residents to be security conscious and to promptly report suspected characters around them to the security agencies.
Yar-Rimawa, who urged the people to shun violence, said that development would only be newesmen reality in an atmosphere of peace and harmony.