Federal Government drills 150 motorised boreholes in Adamawa

The Federal Government has said that it drilled 150 motorised boreholes in Adamawa, to enhance access to safe drinking water.

The Controller of Housing, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Alhaji Aminu Sambo, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  in Yola on Thursday.

According to him, the government provided motorised boreholes designed with over-head tanks and discharge points in communities across the 21 local government areas of the state, to address water shortages.

Also, he said the project had been executed under a special intervention initiated by the federal government aimed at improving water supply and access to safe and clean water.

Sambo added that the project targeted rural communities to ease the difficulties being experienced by rural dwellers in accessing clean water.

He said the federal government has also constructed 100 housing units and  installed 780 units of solar powered streetlights in selected communities across the state.