Idris Ahmed, Lokoja.
Some communities in Kogi state facing acute water scarcity now have cause to celebrate as they have been salvaged by the Shuaibu Abubakar Audu Foundation with the commissioning of several boreholes it sunk across the state.
Grand Patron of the Foundation, Alhaji Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, who is a son of the late Kogi state governor, Prince Abubakar Audu, disclosed to benefiting communities on Wednesday in Lokoja that the completed projects have been tested and are already being commissioned.
Abubakar Audu Junior, who was in Lokoja in company of the United States Special Envoy, Mr. Phillip Bonn Africa Edward said it became imperative on the Foundation to consider assistance to the less privileged communities in view of lack of socio economic amenities needed to uplift their wellbeing.
He also disclosed that the Foundation has concluded arrangement to refurbish some identified dilapidated schools across the three Senatorial districts of the state.
” The schools should look better, attractive and conducive for effective learning and teaching so as to enhance speedy growth of the education sector.
“Education is a right of every child and the Foundation is prepared to contribute its quota to ensuring that the children are nurtured for the future through conducive learning and teaching atmosphere ” He maintained.
According to the Philanthropist the Foundation has plan for other spheres of life that when executed will impact positively on the lives of the rural dwellers, appealing to them to cooperate and participate in the process of developing their communities.
Representatives of the benefiting communities, while commending Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, urged him to step in to his father’s shoe in order to emancipate and salvage the oppressed and the downtrodden.
They prayed to God to continue to guide and protect him in his endeavours so that he can provide more and solve problems afflicting several communities .
Thousands of jubilant elders, youths, women as well as persons with disabilities converged on the hall at the Prince Abubakar Audu House, GRA, Lokoja to receive Shuaibu Abubakar Audu on Wednesday.
