The hydroelectric power producing areas development commission (HYPPADEC), have charged Federal Government to Marshall out plans to dredge dams in Nigeria to minimized insecurity bedevilling the Nation.
The commission believed that the major cause of insecurity in Nigeria is because of dam, ” if you look at particularly Kogi, Niger, Kebbe and Benue what has caused them such devastating issue is the issue of River Benue.
“We realized that for a very long time the River Niger and River Benue have not been dredge. So we advise that Government especially at the Federal level to dredge the River Niger and River Benue and by so doing some of this problems will be reduced.”
The managing director/Chief executive officer of HYPPADEC, Abubakar Sadiq made the clarion on Monday in Jos the state capital during the official opening of five day capacity building for newly recruited staff.
He said the aim of the capacity building is to able to get the new employees to be acquainted with the dose and don’t of the commission on administrative procedures, discipline as well as civil service rules.
The HYPPADEC CEO who was represented by director of research and planning Emmanuel Bintet acknowledged that best on act 87 of establishing HYPPADEC in 2010 our major responsibility is to provide succour to communities and individuals that were devastated as a result of dam activities.
“As a commission we intend to improving the livelihood of the people, community empowerment, increase food production and achieving food security through best agricultural practices, job creation, increased income and poverty reduction.
“Provision of social amenities such as schools, roads, hospitals, power, potable drinking water, and were been able to provide boreholes and street light to some of these communities that were been devastated as a result of dam activities.
” We intend to provide security vehicles to aid operations of security apparatus in most of this HYPPADEC States”, he mentioned.
However, the lead facilitator of the five day capacity building, Mr. Solomon Mwankon, said the 19 participants who were posted from the HYPPADEC headquarters in Minna to Plateau State shall be exposed to the following modules; an overview of the civil service showing the evolution of the service, characteristics, challenges and prospects; an overview of HYPPADEC, code of conduct, ethics and accountability in the public service.
Others are; fraud control mechanisms in the civil service; public service rules, labour relations and productivity in the service, National health insurance scheme, sources of Government information and forms of communication in the service, management of records in the civil service amongst others.
Plateau State coordinator of HYPPADEC, Abubakar Salisu revealed that the induction course is very key for civil servants.
He charged the new appointees to gear up for task ahead of them, noting that what you are about to learn in the civil service the procedures is different from the experience you have acquired in your various academic field of endeavour.
You would recall the HYPPADEC covers six States of Benue, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Kwara and Plateau.
The five day capacity building which kick start Monday 7th March will elapsed Friday 11th March, 2022.
