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…..Hands over Solar-Powered borehole to primary schools in Onitsha
From Aloysius Attah, Onitsha
After over 16 years of dry water taps in Anambra State, Gov. Chukwuma Soludo, has reassured that potable water must get to every nook and cranny of the state.
Already public water supply has been reactivated in Awka and some other parts of the state.
Speaking through the Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka, the governor gave the reassurance while handing over a newly-resuscitated and refurbished solar-powered borehole to the management and pupils of the Rev. Anyaegbunam Primary School, and Nworah Umunna Memorial Primary School, both in Onitsha North Local Government Area of the state.
Chukwuemeka, represented by the Team Leader from the ministry, covering Anambra North Senatorial District, Mr. Okechukwu Onyedibe, also explained that the project was part of the steps towards actualizing the vision of the Soludo administration to make Anambra a livable and prosperous homeland, adding that the project is durable, eco-friendly, and costless to manage, due to its use of solar as the power source, as against the old fashion of diesel-powered generator.
He recalled that Soludo, upon assumption of office, gave a marching order for the resuscitation of the various water schemes and facilities across the state to ensure uninterrupted clean and potable water supply to Ndị Anambra, which made the ministry to embark on stock-taking and facility inventory on all public water facilities around the state to ascertain their functionality status and challenges.
He added that, after the inventory, the governor approved the rehabilitation, reactivation, and conversion of over 64 of the water facilities to solar in different parts of the state in the first phase of the project, and which the schools are parts of the beneficiaries.
