JIGAWA: Council Chairman Berates Boarder Community Development Agency For Poor Performance-Jigawa Post

The Chairman Sule Tankarkar Local Government in Jigawa state Hon Ahmed Sale Damzomo has faulted the Boarder Communities Development Agency…

From Ali Rabiu Ali, Dutse

The Chairman Sule Tankarkar Local Government in Jigawa state Hon Ahmed Sale Damzomo has faulted the Boarder Communities Development Agency (BCDA) for it’s failure to make any significant intervention to boarder communities particularly in Jigawa state despite huge challenges militates them over the years.

Hon Sale Damzomo made the remarks in an interview with Newsmen in his office.

He said, Sule Tankarkar local government has the longest boarder shared with Niger republic in Jigawa state and this made the local government to be vulnerable for the occasional’ disease outbreak and influx of other social and economic challenges.

“We made to understand the border Communities Development Agency was established for making special intervention to the targeted communities being always at receiving end in terms of executing developmental project for sustainable social, economic and infrastructure development.”

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“As you can see now, the special round of cyribarum Spinal Meningitis vaccination exercise is currently going on in our local government following the outbreak of the diseases which killed 3 people in the ‘last two month. We are always prone to such diseases outback, because of our long border sharing with Niger republic and other existing challenges “.

” We observed it with dismay, in Sule Tankarkar local government no single project executed by the Commission at any of our Boarder Community, this is very unfortunate “

” The Commission in different occasions engaged us in discussion and meetings , during every meeting we use to tale them our challenges and the kind of intervention we need from them, but till day all their promises remains mirage “

Hon Damzomo than called on President Bolas Ahmad Tinibu, and the Director general of the Agency to review the activities and the allocation of the Agency, make all nacessary changes for making it vibrant and perform to it’s expectation.

The chairman than promise to continue mobilizing the boarder communities to give all needed cooporation to the security agencies for promoting security and safeguarding the territorial integrity of Nigeria.