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The Managing Director of Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), Abubakar Yelwa on Thursday said the commission has gotten the approval of its governing board to provide 250 houses to people displaced by flood in riverine communities.
Abubakar disclosed this during the stakeholder’s forum on the proposed HYPPADEC medium-term strategic plan 2022-2027 held in Ilorin, Kwara state.
“The commission has gotten the approval of its governing board to provide 250 houses to people displaced by flood from riverine communities.
He however decried the lack of compliance by generating companies in all six HYPPADEC states in the payment of their dues to the commission.
“If not for the grace and support of the governors of the six HYPPADEC states, HYPADEC offices would have closed by now because what is due to HYPADEC from generating companies had never been paid to HYPPADEC to date.
“Some of them are even arguing and trying to see that there is no justification in paying what is due to be paid to support these communities, saying they should be allowed to work it out on their own which should not be the case”, he lamented.
Similarly, HYPPADEC ‘s consultant, Sam Juwl, disclosed that “sixty thousand (60,000) youth in the state will be trained within the next 5 years to take them out of poverty”
Explained that non-graduates would be trained in vocations such as tailoring, paintings amongst others, while graduates on the other hands will be trained in adavanced skills including ICT, installation of circut camera television (CCTV), device, solar panels installations amongst others.
Kwara state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, represented by the secretary to the state’s government, Professor Mamman Shaaba Jibril, called for the dredging of River Niger to put and end to the recurring flood wrecking havoc in reverine communities.
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