By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
In his drive to boost the agricultural activities of the state, The Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has directed the state’s Rural and Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) to immediately drill additional three deep aquifer boreholes in order to supplement the already existing borehole to meet up the requirement of Monguno irrigation field.
It was gathered that the existing water facility can only supply twenty hectres.
Zulum gave this directives when he visited two irrigation fields in Monguno Town when he stops over, while on humanitarian trip to Kukawa Local Government Area.
It is expected that each of the three boreholes would supply 20 hectres of the fields, which would expand the irrigation activities in the area.
The governor directed that RUWASA General Manager, Engr Dr Mohammed Musa Aliyu to immediately mobilizes to the site.
Governor Zulum also said that government would release additional funding to compete other aspects of the project.
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