CORP MEMBER SPENDS N6 MILLION TO PROVIDE WATER TO HIS COMMUNITY
By Kasim Isa Muhammad
19th January, 2023
Youths in Bauchi state have been challenged to engage in community development projects as well as to uphold the spirit of patriotism by providing a lasting solution to the severe hardship the rural dwellers are experiencing as a result of poor infrastructure in the nation.
Speaking with the newsmen in an interview with Joshua Sanga, the Director General of Bauchi state Public Procurement during the commissioning of the solar borehole project worth over N6 million executed by a corp member, Umar Abubakar Ahmed in Kwagga, Toro local government Bauchi state.
Abubakar who sacrificed the money offered to him by Shibnobi Firm in recognition of his contribution and selfless service to the company said to have spent the entire money to provide a lasting solution to long decades of water scarcity in his community.
Commending the project initiator, Eng. Sanga emphasised that it’s high time for young men to start reaching out to their various communities with such a life-changing project to meet the yearning and aspirations of the people, saying government alone can’t meet people’s demands up to a satisfactory level.
While commissioning the historic project, the chairman of Toro local government of Bauchi state Alhaji Danlami Tashan Durmi, represented by his deputy Alhaji Auwal Abba affirmed that when youth possesses patriotic heart, our rural areas would be developed, adding that it will go a long way in reducing the hardship experienced by rural dwellers as well as the burden of the government.
Umar Abubakar Danfulani, the project initiator, said he only forfeited the N6 million offered to him by Shibnobi Firm not because he doesn’t have dreams but rather to provide potable drinking water to his community. He, however, stated that it pains him much to see his parents, sisters and among other well-wishers fetching drinking water from the mucky pond, adding that government must stand on its feet to end the water scarcity and other social amenities deficits in the rural areas hence the need is to provide a conducive atmosphere for living.
Abubakar asked parents to take their wards to school describing education as the bedrock of development saying without being educated he won’t have met Shibnobi Firm and not talked about bringing the project to the community. Abubakar who is currently in his one-year mandatory service to the nation in Abuja said that he struggled so much and sponsored his education as an orphan. Therefore, called on parents to do everything within their power to ensure their wards are educated for a better tomorrow.
In his remark, the royal father of the benefited community Kwagga, Mlm, Idris Abdullahi on behalf of the entire Kwagga community showed their appreciation and thanked the young Umar Abubakar for remembering the town’s predicaments and by bringing them the timely succour, adding that only God almighty can bless him. He also urged the Bauchi state government to provide them with pipes to channel the water to their various houses.
Meanwhile, the Toro Uplift Association presented an award of excellence to the young Umar Abubakar for his sacrifice and selfless service to humanity, while presenting the award Abdulfatah Mu’azu, the association chairman challenge the youth to emulate his kind gesture as there were a lot of gaps waiting for the youths to fixed, saying government alone can’t provide our needs.
The event had in attendance special dignitaries among which are, Toro local government chairman Danlami Tashan Durumi, represented by his deputy Alhaji Auwal Abba, a representative from the state ministry of water resources, royal fathers, politicians, corps members, and youths associations among others.
