Hamza Idris
1 March 2009
Water shortage bedeviling communities across Yobe State has become a source of worry to the Speaker of Yobe State House of Assembly as many people and animals have no access to potable drinking water.
The Speaker, Alhaji Usman Adamu, who was in the entourage of Governor Ibrahim Geidam during an assessment tour of projects in the northern part of Yobe State, had to plead with the governor to stop at a village in Tarmuwa Local Government Area to see how difficult it was for the villagers to get water.
Adamu, who later spoke to reporters, said a committee had been set up by the state government to investigate the water situation and its accompanying problems in all the 17 local government areas of the state.
He said in Tarmuwa LGA alone, more than 20 communities have been identified to be in need of water, adding that the four drilling rigs procured by the state government would be used to dig boreholes in many communities.
Our correspondent reports that residents of Damaturu, the state capital, are also in need of potable water because many of them rely on water vendors who get their supplies from tube wells and commercial borehole operators.
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