by Mohammad Ibrahim
August 16, 2016 – from https://waterjournalistsafrica.com/2016/08/16/nigeria-kakura-residents-laments-lack-of-portable-drinking-water/
Residents of Kakura community in Chikun Local government Area of Kaduna State northwest are lamenting lack of portable water within their village despite their closeness to the city.
The people drink from a pond covered with dirts particularly during dried season.
A visit by water Journalists Africa reporter to the village with about 1000 inhabitants discovered that the community lacks access to good and clean water to drink.
Lamenting on the issue, the Village head, Ishaya Gwamna said in rainy reason all well in the village get dried off.
” We do suffered a lot during dried season because all wells within the village get dried off. The only borehole provided to us by an NGO in year 2000 has stopped working.
“Now our women fetched water from well but as soon as the rain stop they move to the pond to fetch water,” he said.
Another Community Leader Sunday Kakura said they are not happy drinking from a pond shared by people and cows.
“We have no option but to drink from same pond because we just have to survive. But we need assistance from any individual to provide us with boreholes in the village. We are subsistence farmers and need government intervention in our village,” he said.
The village head Ishaya Gwamna also expressed sadness with regards to lack of portable water for his people.
“We vote during elections because politicians do come to seek for our votes. But they never fulfilled their promises to us.
“We are appealing to philanthropists, other agencies and even the state government to provide us with primary health care center where our women and children can access health care. We equally need drinking water in the community which is a big challenge to us,” he said.
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