As part of efforts to increase access to safe and sufficient water to meet the sanitation, cultural, social, environmental and economic development needs of the country, the federal government is undertaking some flagship projects and programmes.
This was contained in a keynote address by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, at the 29th regular meeting of the National Council on Water Resources held in Sokoto.
Engr Adamu said the programs included Partnership for Expanded Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (PEWASH) and the World Bank’s Sustainable Urban Rural Water Sanitation and Hygiene (SURWASH).
According to the minister, the primary object of the programmes is to contribute to improvement in public health and eradication of poverty with a view to achieving the SDGs set goals.
He said the SURWASH was also designed to improve urban, small towns and rural water supply and strengthen sector institutions in all the participating states.
In his goodwill message, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar lll, urged Nigerians to embrace government’s policies and programmes designed for their own benefit.
Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar also called on eligible voters to use their conscience in electing good leaders that would steer the affairs of Nigeria in the next four years.
He said ethnicity and religion should not be the basis but the ability to deliver.
“Use your votes wisely to elect good leaders in the forthcoming general elections scheduled for February and March this year.
“Sokoto state is home to all, we don’t have non-indigenes, but rather resident communities, we are one big family. Let’s put ethnicity aside if we want our country Nigeria to progress as a nation,” he said.
