N2BN ADADA RIVER DAM IN ENUGU STATE TO BE COMPLETED NEXT YEAR
*Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Massive Rural Electrification Project To Power Dam
The over N2bn Adada River Dam embarked upon by the Federal Ministry
of Water Resources in Enugu state would be completed and delivered for
use in July next year and it would generate and hold some 1.3m cubic
metre of water all year round.
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state who inspected the dam project
at the weekend also inaugurated a massive network of rural
electrification project started early in June this year a few days
after he assumed office and executed by the state’s Rural
Electrification Board.
Representative of the water resources ministry. Robert Umezulike, a
chief hydrologist who was at the site of the dam at the weekend when
Governor Ugwuanyi inspected the mega project and inaugurated a
massive rural electrification project assured that when completed,
the facility would power the greater Nsukka water scheme which has
been in the pipeline in the past decades.
To strengthen the process of enhancing the project and boost economic
activities in the vast rural communities that cut across Udi,
Uzo-Uwani and Igbo- Etiti local council areas of the state, the
governor inaugurated a completed massive rural electrification
projected which would help in powering the dam on completion.
Also the completion of the dam in 2016 and the present completion of
the rural electrification project which would now ease up pressure
from other electricity facilities around the Nsukka zone would further
the resolve of the governor to upgrade the status of Nsukka to a
befitting university town.
The people of the three local council areas thronged Ezi-Nze,the site
of the 2.5MVA injection substation opened for use by the governor who
also cut the tape to inaugurate the civic centre in the community, and
the joy of the people knew no bounds when the governor switched on the
light with a shout of joy thus: “let there be light”.
Umezulike assured the governor and the huge crowd that gathered during
the inspection of the dam and explained that the construction was
such that dam has the capacity to end water scarcity in the entire
area.
Governor Ugwuanyi,during an inspection tour, expressed his
administration’s readiness to give it all the necessary support to
facilitate its delivery on time with the specified job
quality to actualize the aim of adding value to the lives of the
various communities it is meant to serve.
While interacting with the governor, the site Engr of the project
Justine Ihedioha hinted that the project would tentatively be
completed by July 2016, adding that the first phase of the project has
been completed while the entire project has assumed 30% completion
status.
They observed that when completed and full, it would produce 1.3m
cubic metre of water, all the year round..
The governor who sought to know the capacity of the dam and its
benefits to the people, urged the contractor handling it to deploy
adequate materials for unceasing actions on it.
The contractor,Justine Ihedioha,who lamente inadequate fund as the the
major setback to the progress of the work however assured the governor
of quality job delivery,adding that all the preliminary work,including
the dam foundation amounting to thirty percent had been completed.
Ihedioha explained that the dam has capacity of 1.3 mil lion cubic
meters of water supply all year round when completed and allayed fears
of low strength of giving enough water needs of the target
communities. `this river is not perennial; anybody who is saying that
this cannot sustain the water demands of the communities,may not be
right`.he stressed.
At the civic reception held in his honour by the communities
benefitting from the electrification project, Governor Ugwuanyi,
during the event, renewed the resolve of his
administration to give priority to rural development, in realisation
of the need to impact appreciably on the lives of greater number of
the people who dwell in the rural communities.
He said his government would not rest on its oars until all the rural
communities in the state have attained the level of access those
amenities for which search for in the cities, to reduce the
rural-urban drift and create opportunities for tapping the resources
in the hinterlands.
In an address delivered by the chairman organizing committee for the
event,Joseph Oyibo,on behalf of Akpakwume, Ezi-Nze and Ibute-Nze
communities, the people expressed their appreciation for the land mark
achievement of being the first place the governor had inaugurated a
project on assumption of office.
This was further demonstrated with an ofo stick presented to the
governor by the traditional ruler of Ibute –Nze,Igwe Nodulum Eze as a
symbol of authority and support for the government.