Kabi-Kasa locals risk typhoid, cholera drinking unclean water
that all the three boreholes had broken down.
Mrs. Laraba Danjuma, who also spoke with our reporter, said anytime she fetches water from the pond she put a purifying chemical for one hour before she drank it.
“Just look at the colour of the water that we are drinking in this village, it is only God that is saving us, if not, many people would be sick,” she said.
The traditional ruler of the community, Danjuma Kpanko, who spoke with our reporter at his palace, said the perennial water problem had become a nightmare to the people.
Kpanko, appealed to the authorities of the council to help in refurbishing the grounded boreholes at the community, saying that three hand pump boreholes built by some missionaries last April have also broken down.
He further urged the council chairman to get the FCT administration to open the new health centre that was completed over three years ago.
When contacted, the chairman of Kuje Area Council, Alhaji Abdullahi D. Galadima, said the council was embarking on drilling of 28 hand pump boreholes across various communities of the council to ease the water problem in the area.
He said 18 had so far been drilled and commissioned across some villages, saying that though Kuje Area Council has the highest number of villages, his administration was determined to provide viable amenities that will impact on the lives of residents of the council.