Lagos — Enugu State is to benefit from a World Bank facility worth one hundred and twenty million US dollars for water development in the country. The leader of the World Bank team on National Urban Water Supply Sector Reform Project, Mr. Hassan Kida, announced this during a recent courtesy call on Governor Chimaroke Nnamani at the Government House, Enugu.
Kida stated that under the project, the State Government would be expected to contribute five per cent of the total amount as its own counterpart fund to the project. He told the Governor that Enugu was one of the three states benefiting from the project, sponsored by the world body and designed to provide adequate water supply to residents of Enugu and Nsukka urban when completed by 2008. The two other states are Kaduna and Ogun.
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