From Saka Bolaji, Minna
The Niger state government has reiterated its commitment to constructing road and supplying electricity to Shagunu where the ancestral homes of New Bussa were buried in the water following the construction of the Kainji dam.
Shagunu dam is a cultural and tourist site of old New Bussa now under water where the Naval Headquarters had earlier visited and agreed to established Naval college has no access road and power supply .
Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, in an interview at the site in continuation of his inspection tour of the local governments described as “a beautiful site with a beach” which needed an access road and electricity to function well as a tourist site.
Governor Bello who assured that Shagunu in Borgu local government area of the State would be good for tourism with such requisite facilities, adding that the upper dam created is 54km in length and 27km in height up to Niger Republic.
He described the people as ‘peaceful people’ hence needed investment to boost the economic advantage of the place with sensitization of the people on the importance and the advantages of such investment.
In an interview, one of the villagers, Suleiman Mohammed, decried lack of portable water, saying drinking from the lake in the area has killed about 50 people in the last three years due to liver related illness that was caused by the water according to doctors’ research.
He said majority of those death recorded were women and appealed to the state and federal governments to come to their aid in terms of water supply and health facilities so as to reduce to the barest minimal the death rate recorded.
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