The local governments of Nangere, Fika, and Potiskum in Yobe announced on Friday that they have invested more than N299.1 million in various development projects between 2022 and 2023.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the chairman of the Nangere Council, Alhaji Salisu Yerima, revealed that N99.8 million was spent on initiatives in Nangere while speaking to the media during a tour of the locales by members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Yobe Chapter.
The council noted that it spent N25 million of the money constructing and installing “six diameter solar hybrid boreholes” while N13.5 million was used to build two classrooms, an office, and a store in Jakade.
Yerima said that N10 million had been spent on a 30KVA generator and electrical fixtures at the government lodge and that N5.6 million had been spent on 1.5 HP solar water pumps with connections.
“The council also bought five 5 HP submersible pumps and rebuilt a block of two classrooms, an office, and a store in Gwasko,” according to the chairman.
The Council’s Chairperson, Hajiya Halima Joda, stated at Fika that N99.3 million had been spent on projects overall during the period.
She said that N15 million was spent on cereals, N14 million on the council’s road grader’s repair, and N13.5 million on the building of a clinic in Tum.
According to Joda, the council spent N11 million on erosion management in Bajibir-Kab, N7.5 million to buy irrigation water pumps, and N1 million to fence off a market and a car park in Godow.
The chairperson noted that the council also spent almost N7 million on office vehicles and N3 million on educational supplies.
According to the Potiskum Local Government, N99.9 million was spent on projects during the period under consideration.
The organization’s director of personnel management, Alhaji Adamu Dagona, listed projects that included the rehabilitation of the town’s abattoir for N27.6 million and the perimeter fence of a mobile police post in Potiskum town for N27.9 million.
The state NUJ chairman, Alhaji Rajab Mohammed, commented on the projects and stated that the purpose of the tour was to hold the government accountable for the money that the state ministry for local government and chieftaincy affairs had released to them.
According to him, under a unique funding program called “work plan-based projects 2022/2023,” each of the state’s 17 local governments is required to spend the money wisely to raise the standard of living for its residents.
The ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mallam Ali Mustapha, reportedly informed journalists that the councils received N765 million as the last payment for the projects on May 4.
