Corps member provides Katsina community with potable water
Commissioning of the boreholes
Published By: Ayorinde Oluokun
By Abbas Bamalli
A Corps member, Hafsat Abdulhamid, has provided succor from the challenge of getting potable water for the Dandagoro community, in Batagarawa Local Government Area of Katsina State with the rehabilitation of three abandoned boreholes.
The boreholes inaugurated on Sunday, were reported to have broken down for over two years, forcing the residents of the area into difficulty in accessing potable water.
The gesture was part of the corps member’s Community Development Service (CDS).
The corps member reported that the Community, for the past two years has been suffering over lack of potable water, since the boreholes provided by the government broke down.
She said that the only three boreholes providing water to Dandagoro and two other nearby communities became bad and members of the areas were thrown into hardship.
According to her, “I was so worried about the situation, especially where people of the communities trek a long distance to access potable water.
“Because of the lack of good drinking water, some children in the community were already suffering from some waterborne diseases.”
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Abdulgamid thanked the local government Chairman, Alhaji Bala Garba-Tsanni, for his magnanimity and ever ready to provide solution to the problem affecting his people.
She said the Chairman did not waste time to give support to the project when he saw her proposal, calling on other Council Chairmen to emulate Garba-Tsanni.
Commissioning the project, Alhaji Ibrahim Sa’idu, the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Coordinator in the state, commended the corps member for her ingenuity to carry out the project.
He called on all stakeholders to support corps members posted to their communities by sponsoring them to execute their CDS projects in their areas.
While stressing that the projects executed by corps members belong to the communities, and will remain there, Ibrahim encouraged the Council Chairman to continue in his good works.
The village head of Dandagoro, Alhaji Muttaka Magaji said his people had suffered and passed through untold hardship to get a good source of drinking water.
According to him, for the past two years, there was no solution for their problem except promise upon promise by politicians.
He prayed fervently for the corps members, the NYSC and Nigeria as a whole, thanking God for answering their prayers to have potable drinking water. (NAN)
