Against the backdrop of pictures making the rounds on the social media depicting acute water shortages in Kulda,a village in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State ,lawmaker representing the area in the House of Representatives,Hon. Yusuf Buba Yakub,says he has personally sunk over 300 boreholes in the entire Federal Constituency and calls on other stakeholders to contribute their quota.
When contacted through his media aide,Nkem Anyata-Lafia,the Member,who is known to be famous for his various Empowerment and Development programmes and initiatives across Adamawa State,and under whose Constituency Kulda village falls, informed us that the Member,as at the last count, had sunk over 300 boreholes personally in the whole of the Constituency. This,he said, has covered for one borehole for each of the 254 Polling Units of the Constituency. He insisted that, if the Local Government Area whose primary responsibility is to provide such basic needs of the people like water, primary health care and rural roads can do half of what the Hon. Member has done, such villages like Kulda and the reported lack of water will not be existing in Hong LGA or in any part of the Constituency today.
Anyata-Lafia,who drew the attention of all to the great developmental strides of the Member representing the area, including the setting-up of the Captain Buba Industrial Village to train and empower Constituents in various skills, said the online pictures and the accompanying reality were considered a clarion call by his principal for all stakeholders in the State,Local and National leadership spectra to do more to develop their land and offer a new lease of life to the people. He pointed out that,just a few weeks ago,the Member representing the area had flagged off a number of projects and commissioned some completed ones; one of which was at the behest of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Some of these projects,he said, include: a hospital project at Gombi North,a flood and an erosion- control project,a road project,a water project at Gombi,Garkida,Hong,Pella,Uba among other areas.
He said it was important to highlight some of the above realities in the light of the prevailing circumstances in some areas of the Constituency and observed that in spite of the efforts of the Honourable Member in seeking to address part of the infrastructural deficit in the area more commitment was required by all to achieve comprehensive results.
