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Borno assembly summons commissioner over projects The Borno State Commissioner for Rural and Urban Water Supply, Abuabkar Kyari, Wednesday, appeared before the assembly over allegation of non-performance, occasioned by poor water supply across the state, despite millions of naira said to have been spent on water projects. The House of Assembly had questioned the non-usage of some water drilling rigs purchased by the ministry through the direc-tive of Governor Ali Modu Sherrif. The House therefore summoned the commiss-ioner, his permanent secret-ary and the general manager, Borno State Water Board, to explain the situation last week, but they shunned the legislators. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Rural and Urban Water Supply, who earlier appeared before the legislatures, pleaded that the commis-sioner and the general mana-ger had been to Abuja on an official engagement. Speaker Ali Gwari Modu expressed disappointment over the situation and ord-red that the commissioner must appear before the House. Addressing the lawmakers, Commissioner Abubakar Kyari disclosed that the non-use of rigs was due to lack of personnel with technical operational skills to handle the equipment. Kyari informed the house that a team of 15 staff of the ministry would be traveling to South Africa “any moment from now” to acquire skills on the use of rigs. Governor Ali Modu Sherrif had at a session with journalists announced that the rigs were purchased with funds from the state and local government joint account. But the state’s Chairman of the PDP, Ibrahim Gubio, in a recent chat with Daily Trust, described the development as fraudulent since, according to him, the local government chairmen were not consulted. Anonymous publicat-ions circulating in Maiduguri claimed that “the rigs in question were never purchased, as claimed by the government.”   TO NEXT NEWS PAGE...

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