Written by Usman A. Bello & Hussein Yahaya Monday, 20 June 2011 00:00
Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, Micah Y. Jiba, yesterday commissioned an electricity project at Dako community and road projects in Durumi and Karu villages to mark his one year in office.
Over 800 indigent students drawn from both secondary and tertiary institutions were also given scholarships.
The council chairman said the projects were part of his electoral promises to provide social amenities and encourage educational advancement at the grassroots with a view to discouraging school dropouts in the council area.
He said the council has equally executed 17 water projects, empowered 23 widows with free grinding machines, donated 24 herbicide sprayers to rural farmers, distributed 300 metric tons of fertilizers at N1,000 to boost agriculture and established 32 rural electrification schemes, among others
“In the education sector, we have provided N5 million scholarships to 300 students, 100,000 customized exercise books to primary school pupils, donated 4,600 school uniforms, built three new blocks of classrooms with headmaster’s office and provided 1,625 desks to 37 primary schools,” he said.
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AMAC chairman commissions electricity, road projects