The Katsina State Government has revealed that it had spent over N2 billlion in the last two years towards the construction of an effective drainage system in the state.
Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, said this on Monday when he received some high-profile political leaders and businessmen in his office in the state capital, Katsina.
Masari said: “The present administration has expended over N2 billion to construct drainages in the Katsina metropolis within the last two years.
“When this administration came on board, it met several wards that had been experiencing flood disasters every.This government constructed a long drainage of five-kilometres from Sabuwar-Unguwa to Adeleke Bridge to Tudun-Natsira and Kofar-Sauri area.
He said that the government had also constructed a drainage from Kofar-Kwaya to Kofar-Kaura and joined it to Adeleke Bridge in the Katsina metropolis.
“Another drainage from the Emir’s palace to General Hospital Road to Katsina Teachers’ College and outside the city wall was constructed. The government also reclaimed some ponds that were becoming a threat to the people of the metropolis.
“A two-kilometre-drainage was constructed from Yammawa to the outskirts of the town to avert flood disaster in the area,’’ Masari added.
