FG Constructed 6,700 Water Schemes, Minister Claims

The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has constructed over 6,700 water schemes under his seven years of leadership.
Adamu, while speaking at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja, yesterday, added that the ministry was building water resources capacity to supply water to 32million Nigerians.
He said: “In the last seven years we have constructed more than 6,700 water schemes across the country and we have been able to provide water supply at the federal level alone between the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and its agencies.
“The water resources we have built have the capacity to supply more than 32million people with water.”
He commended the media for their massive support for the seven years, which had put the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in good light and making Nigerians understand its mandate.
He added that there would be massive project commissioning shortly after Christmas across the country executed by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
“In the meantime, is going to be commissioning galore, and we have already started with Patigi Water Supply Project, after Christmas, I will be commissioning the Ahmadu Bello University Water Supply Project Phase 2.
“We hope also early in January 2023 to flag off Gombe Regional Water Supply project, also to commission a concession on a power plant in Dadinkowa which is 40megawatts, and already injecting power into the National Power Grid, commissioning of Kashimbila Dam Power Project along with the Ministry of Power, and now we are also injecting power into the National Grid.
“We also have the Nasarawa Emergency Power Project, among others. We have irrigation projects including the Hadeja Irrigation project of 6,000 hectares along with Kano River Irrigation project, we have rehabilitated it and we are likely to have 14, 900 hectares of irrigation back on stream, we rehabilitated the major canal, this is the first irrigation work we have done in 50 years.”The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has constructed over 6,700 water schemes under his seven years of leadership.
Adamu, while speaking at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja, yesterday, added that the ministry was building water resources capacity to supply water to 32million Nigerians.
He said: “In the last seven years we have constructed more than 6,700 water schemes across the country and we have been able to provide water supply at the federal level alone between the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and its agencies.
“The water resources we have built have the capacity to supply more than 32million people with water.”
He commended the media for their massive support for the seven years, which had put the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in good light and making Nigerians understand its mandate.
He added that there would be massive project commissioning shortly after Christmas across the country executed by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
“In the meantime, is going to be commissioning galore, and we have already started with Patigi Water Supply Project, after Christmas, I will be commissioning the Ahmadu Bello University Water Supply Project Phase 2.
“We hope also early in January 2023 to flag off Gombe Regional Water Supply project, also to commission a concession on a power plant in Dadinkowa which is 40megawatts, and already injecting power into the National Power Grid, commissioning of Kashimbila Dam Power Project along with the Ministry of Power, and now we are also injecting power into the National Grid.
“We also have the Nasarawa Emergency Power Project, among others. We have irrigation projects including the Hadeja Irrigation project of 6,000 hectares along with Kano River Irrigation project, we have rehabilitated it and we are likely to have 14, 900 hectares of irrigation back on stream, we rehabilitated the major canal, this is the first irrigation work we have done in 50 years.”