Zaria Water Project Gets 2014 Completion Date

1_1271179Work on the multi billion naira Zaria water project is to be completed in April 2014, the General Manager of Kaduna State Water Board, Alhaji Kabiru Rufai, has said.

Rufai said in an interview with newsmen yesterday in Kaduna that work on the project was over 84 per cent complete.

He said when completed, more than 150 million liters of water would be supplied daily to consumers in Zaria, Sabon gari, Giwa, Makarfi, Ikara, Kudan, Kubau and Soba Local Government Areas.

The general manager said about N15 billion had so far gone into the water project, adding that a provision of N5 billion has been made in the 2013 budget for its continuation.(NAN)