FG expresses willingness to generate electricity from Kiri Dam
The federal government has begun moves to ensure the utilization of Kiri Dam to generate electricity in order to boost the country’s economy.
Making the disclosure during a facility tour of the dam in order to ascertain its integrity, the director Dams and reservoir operations of the federal ministry of water resources and sanitation, Eng. Ali Ibrahim Dalla noted that to that effect the federal government has started retrofitting exercise in order to update the dam for the purpose of power generation.
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“We have carried out retrofitting on the dam that is updating of dams and we have found out that the dam is capable of generating electricity. By the time the study is completed further information will be revealed about the capacity of the power to be generated,” he said.
Dalla who expressed optimism in the integrity of the dam noted that the dam built over forty years ago is still in good shape adding that except for the little erosion observed, the dam is in sound health.
“We are here in continuation of our visit to Dams in Nigeria. The essence of the visit is to see its physical condition in order for us to ascertain its health and to avert recurrence of similar flood that happens in Alau Dam in Borno State.
“Climate change is responsible for excess flow that came into Alau Dam this year. It was unprecedented. In the design of the dam, this scenario was not factored in and that led to what happened in Borno State.
“I can vouch for the integrity of this dam from the physical inspection that we have carried. Establishing the integrity of any dam does not just stop at the physical inspection, it includes the internal examination of dam using some parameters but we have not done that but we can tell you without any fear that this dam is in good shape for that reason the integrity will be okay for future uses,” he said.
He added that the goal of the facility tour is to ensure that Nigerian Dams which are now aging having being built about 40 years ago do not pose threats to their communities as a result of defects adding that the federal government will immediately address any observable concern that may likely compromise the integrity of any of the dams.
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