Tinubu approves N80 billion for Alau Dam reconstruction

tinubu approves n80 billion for alau dam reconstruction

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has authorized N80 billion for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Alau Dam in Borno State as a part of efforts to handle flooding and improve water administration within the area.

Minister of Water Sources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, disclosed this on Tuesday after the Federal Government Council (FEC) assembly on the State Home, Abuja, which was presided over by President Tinubu.

Utsev said that the Borno State Authorities is partnering with the Federal goyvernment to execute the venture, which is ready to be accomplished inside 24 months. 

He emphasised that the primary section of the rehabilitation can be accomplished between February and July 2025 to mitigate the chance of flooding within the state.

The Minister additionally supplied an replace on the Nationwide Committee on Dam Analysis, which was constituted on September 23, 2024, and inaugurated on October 2, 2024. 

He defined that after assessing 35 dams throughout Nigeria, the committee recognized the Alau Dam as essentially the most crucial and in pressing want of reconstruction and rehabilitation.

“The mandate of that committee was to evaluate all dams within the nation and give you suggestions of how greatest the dams could be put to make use of, the areas of water provide, flood management, irrigation and fish farming, amongst others.

“The committee constituted a subcommittee which co-opted members of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, the Council for regulation of engineering in Nigeria, and that of Council of dams consultants in Nigeria. 

“So the committee swooped into motion and introduced out suggestions of about 35 dams which have assessed up to now.

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“So, as we speak the interim report was introduced to the Federal Government Council. We noticed some challenges because of flooding on the tenth of September final yr. 

“So, the designs, evaluation and all the pieces of that individual dam, Alau dam, was accomplished and introduced to the subcommittee, and that report was made earlier than Mr President, and Mr President graciously gave an approval of N80 billion for the reconstruction and growth of Alau dam instantly, in Bono state. 

“So, because it stands now, the approval for the development of recent rehabilitation of alao dam has been accomplished by Mr. President, which is awaiting ratification of the Federal Government Council when all different due course of are being noticed.

“The Borno state authorities is working with the subcommittee and members of the Nigerian safety advisory workplace. They’re working collectively to kick begin that that venture, and we’re believing that between now and July this yr, the primary element of that work shall be established, in order that this yr there shall be no flooding in Maiduguri once more.

“Then the opposite parts like desilting will begin by December this yr. The venture is meant to broaden for a interval of 24 months”, he stated.

The Federal Government Council had beforehand authorized the organising of a committee to reassess the structural integrity of Alau Dam and different dams throughout the nation.

The committee is chaired by Minister of Water Sources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, and contains key ministers and officers such because the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economic system, Wale Edun, the Minister of Works, David Umahi, the Minister of Housing and City Growth, Ahmed Dangiwa, and the Minister of Data and Nationwide Orientation, Mohammed Idris.

Different members embody the Minister of Setting, Balarabe Lawal, the Nationwide Safety Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the Minister of Price range and Financial Planning, Abubakar Bagudu.

Utsev reiterated the federal authorities’s dedication to strengthening Nigeria’s water infrastructure, guaranteeing sustainable water administration, and stopping flooding disasters throughout the nation.

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