Across Yobe’s major towns and urban centers, people often watch helplessly as their streets – and neighbourhoods – regularly sink under flood waters during the rainy season.
For many, the rainy season is, therefore, paradoxically a tipping point between the prospects and joys of a return to the farms and the spectre of inconvenience and even health challenges caused by flooded streets.
It is all thanks to a township renewal and development programme currently being executed by the Buni administration. Within his first year in office, Governor Mai Mala Buni, teaming up with the respective local government councils, has ensured that these four major towns are kitted with new roads and concrete drains.
These are investments that have paid – and will continue to pay – in full. When people can move freely and conduct their businesses easily, it redounds to their capacity to be more productive. The roads and drainage lines in Yobe’s major towns also have a direct impact on people’s health because they potentially reduce the prospect of flooded waters becoming the breeding locales for mosquitos and other disease-causing parasites.
These are key agriculture-enhancing projects. Both of them will connect communities that are already connected culturally but that are literally separated by terrains that are difficult to navigate.
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