By Danzumi Ishaku Jalingo
After over a hundred years of drinking water from ponds with animals, the Community and Social Development Projects (CSDP) has drilled a motorised borehole for the provision of portable water to Boboto village in Yorro Local government area of Taraba state.
Chief Sindi Shonvo, village head of Boboto, told newsman on Thursday that lack of portable water source had always been the problem of the community since they settled in the area over a hundred years ago.
Shonvo, said that successive governments in the state had promised to bring water to the community after listening to the plight of the people but always failed.
He narrated that the people had to travel to hours to the nearest pond to fetch water.
According to him, it became extremely difficult during the dry season when they had to spend agonising hours for the pond to generate water for them to fetch.
“It has been a very difficult experience for us. I am so excited that the Governor Darius Ishaku, in collaboration with the CSDP has listened to our cry and has brought this succour to our people.
“In the past, our women had to go to the pond that is very far away from here to go and fetch water.
“That is the same pond where our animals also drink an during the dry season, some of our children will even stop going to schools sourcing for water.
” They will spend long hours at the pond waiting their turns to fetch and today, all of that is put to rest now.
“With this borehole in our community now, half of our problem is solved and everyone is happy. ” The men, women, children, our animals and those making Burukutu (local beer) for us are all excited and happy’ the village head said.
Some of the people who spoke to Journalists expressed overwhelming joy over the development.
According to thirteen years old Veronica Santi, “now I don’t have to go to school late every day and we will continue going to school even during the dry season, the time we used to stop going to school because of water”.
Similarly, Joseph Shonva, a physically challenged man told Daybreak news that his plight for looking for water to bath and wash clothes had being addressed.
“My physical disabilities and the inconveniences that comes with it have been reduced to a great extent as I don’t have to crawl for hours just to go and take my bath and wash my clothes.
“Water is right at the back of my house and I feel very complete now,’ Shonva said.
Daybreak reports that the entire village was thrown into jubilation as a new borehole was commissioned in the community by CSDP.
