Enugu State governor commisions N2Billion Naira Dam project in Enugu

The over N2bn Adada River Dam embarked upon by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Enugu state would be completed and delivered for use in July next year and it would generate and hold some 1.3m cubic metre of water all year round.

       Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state who inspected the dam project at the weekend also inaugurated a massive network of rural electrification project started early in June this year a few days after he assumed office and executed by the state’s Rural Electrification Board.

          Representative of the Water Resources Ministry, Robert Umezulike, a chief hydrologist who was at the site of the dam at the weekend when Governor Ugwuanyi inspected the mega project  and inaugurated a massive rural electrification project  assured that when completed, the facility would power the greater Nsukka water scheme which has been in the pipeline in the past decades.

         To strengthen the process of enhancing the project and boost economic activities in the vast rural communities that cut across Udi, Uzo-Uwani and Igbo- Etiti local council areas of the state, the governor inaugurated a completed massive rural electrification projected which would help in powering the dam on completion.

       Also the completion of the dam in 2016 and the present completion of the rural electrification project which would now ease up pressure from other electricity facilities around the Nsukka zone would further the resolve of the governor to upgrade the status of Nsukka to a befitting university town.

         The people of the three local council areas thronged Ezi-Nze, the site of the 2.5MVA injection substation opened for use by the governor who also cut the tape to inaugurate the civic centre in the community, and the joy of the people knew no bounds when the governor switched on the light.

          Umezulike assured the governor and the huge crowd that gathered during the inspection of the dam and explained that the construction was such that dam has the capacity to end water scarcity in the entire area.

Governor Ugwuanyi,during an inspection tour, expressed his administration’s  readiness to give it all the necessary support to facilitate its delivery on time with the specified job quality to actualize the aim of adding value to the lives of the various communities it is meant to serve.

While interacting with the governor, the site Engr of the project Justine Ihedioha hinted that the project would tentatively be completed by July 2016, adding that the first phase of the project has been completed while the entire project has assumed 30% completion status.

         They observed that when completed and full,  it would produce 1.3m cubic metre of water, all the year round.

         The governor who sought to know the capacity of the dam and its benefits to the people, urged the contractor handling it to deploy adequate materials for unceasing actions on it.

          The contractor, Justine Ihedioha, who lamented inadequate fund as the major setback to the progress of the work however assured the governor of quality job delivery, adding that all the preliminary work, including the dam foundation amounting to thirty percent had been completed.

Ihedioha explained that the dam has capacity of 1.3 million cubic meters of water supply all year round when completed and allayed fears of low strength of giving enough water needs of the target communities. 

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