Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Thursday visited the 40MW Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam Project in Taraba State assuring that when completed, the Dam would serve the multiple purpose of protecting parts of the country from a predicted ecological disaster, provide electricity and support agricultural ventures in surrounding States of the Northeast, NTA reports.
Fashola, said specifically as regards electricity that the project was conceived in about 2007 to provide electricity to the surrounding communities of six states in the country. The Minister named the states to include Taraba, Benue, Cross River, Delta and Kogi on the route of the tributaries of the Katsina-Ala River. According to him, what the communities have presently is a 33KV line that transmits energy across 80, 90 to 100 and above kilometers adding that by the time the energy ultimately gets to the communities, it is not effective resulting in what is often referred to as “low current.”
Assuring that the project would solve all of the problems, Fashola, however, regretted that the contracting firm has not been paid for about two or three years adding that the project had just been put into the budget. He said, “We have approved payment for the contractor and I have now come to see what we are paying for to ensure that the project is delivered”. “A lot of progress will be made between now and early 2018 latest, by 2018 this project would have achieved all of its objectives: protection, energy, agric, and water supply”, he added.
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