N-HYPPADEC to provide solar street lights, borehole to Bina community

From Yakubu Mustapha Minna

National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Commission N- HYPPADEC has pledged to provide solar street lights and a borehole for Bina community in Lapai local government area of Niger state.
The commission’s Director of Operations, Engineer Iliyasu Abdullahi Wara made the promise in an exclusive interview with journalists after listening to a bitter complain from the community representative, saying that the light will provide security for the residents especially at night.
Wara who spoke on behalf of the N- HYPPADEC Managing Director, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa further revealed that the borehole is an intervention to provide a clean portable drinking water to the people of the community.
According to him, this year 2024, the community of Bina will be captured by the commission to benefit from intervention of solar street lights and a borehole as part of their mandate to provide succour to the commission’s communities.
Responding, the Dagacin Bina community, Alhaji Mohammed Umar Bina applauded the management of N-HYPPADEC for the unexpected kind gesture in ameliorating the suffering of the people who were lacking such basic amenities of live over the years however, thanked the commission for the intervention.
It could be recalled that Bina community have been suffering from acute shortage of clean portable drinking water over the years since the broke down of the two boreholes hence the residents have continued to depend on well water for their livelihood.