Leadership (Abuja)
Umar Sa'id
20 August 2008
Bauchi — Bauchi State Government has, so far, spent over N443 million to rehabilitate and expand water supply in the metropolis.
Governor Isa Yuguda stated this while commissioning the rehabilitated and expanded 2.5 million gallons per day water treatment plant at Gubi Dam.
He said the present administration met the water supply infrastructure of Bauchi metropolis in a state of disarray, where the power transformer was burnt and the stand by generating sets had broken down.
He stated that the decision to rehabilitate and expand the Gubi dam was because the 10 million gallons per day did not meet the demands of the state capital, hence the decision to provide additional 2.5 million gallons per day fron the bigger plant to augument the 10 million gallons per day.
He stated that experts have recommended that the Bauchi metropolis now require about 40 million gallons per day and government was doing everything possible to provide the people of the state with portable drinking water before the experation of his administration.
The governor explained that government was not unaware of the working condition of the staff of the Gubi Dam treatment plant and announced the payment of 30 per per cent hazard allowance, 10 per cent inducement allowance, 20 per cent rural posting allowance, 30 per cent shifting allowance to all the staff working in the dam side.
Speaking earlier, the former commissioner for Water Recources, Hon Tanko Yusuf Dutse, said the water plant, which was commissioned in 1980, was producing only 1.5 million gallons but the present administration awarded contract for the rehabilitation and expansion of the water plant to Bran and Lubbe Water Engeneering Nigeria Limited to ensure total supply of water to bauchi metropolis.
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