Kano State Commissioner for Works and infrastructural Development, Engineer Mu’azu Magaji, has said the two major ongoing hydropower plants embarked on by the present administration in the state will soon be completed to guarantee enough power supply to revamp moribund Industries in the state.
Magaji made the disclosure yesterday while enumerating the successes recorded by his Ministry since he took over the mantle of leadership on 6th of November 2020.
According to him, the twin projects which were designed to run concurrently could have since seen the light of the day if not for the administrative delay and change in the scope of execution.
“We are at the verge of completing the phase one of the hydropower which is in Tiga  in October 2020, while that of Challawa gauge will be in August 2021. Once completed, it will be the first hydropower of its kind across all the 36 states of the federation.
The Commissioner explained further that if the projects are completed as scheduled, it would deliver power to all treatment plants at Tamburawa and Challawa would  also supply the metropolitan street lights from the first projects at Tiga which is about 90 percent completed.”
He said ” we are now at the process of bringing the confluence together and do the wet test. Every single installation was dry tested both the horizontal and vertical turbines and the control room all functions well during the test run. We are left with the transmission lines which will run from the hydropower plant down to Pankshekara quarters in Kumbotso local government area of the state where it will be distributed to the Water treatment plant and the metropolitan street light.”
