Dr. Abu Lahoum inaugurates and reviews work progress on number of water barriers in Sa’ada


The Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs – Minister of Finance, Dr. Rashid Abboud Abu Lahoum, the Commander of the Fifth Military Region, Major General Youssef Al-Madani, the Governor of Sa’ada, Muhammad Jaber Awad, and the Head of the Road Maintenance Fund, Engineer Nabil Al-Haifi, inaugurated work on a number of water barriers in Sa’ada province .

They, along with the Secretary-General of the Local Council in the province, Muhammad Al-Imad, the Chairman of the Rural Water Projects Authority, Adel Bader, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Kamal Khaled, and the Deputy Director of the Office of the Revolution Leader , Abd al-Rab Jurfan, inaugurated work on the Raqqa and Al-Mawrid Awali checkpoints in Haydan District, with funding from the Central Emergency Development Interventions Unit in the Ministry of Finance, and community contribution.

The storage capacity of Raqqa checkpoint is 50 thousand cubic meters, at a cost of 116 million and 117 thousand riyals, and the number of be
neficiaries is 1,800 people, while the storage capacity of the Al-Mawred Awali checkpoint is 75 thousand and 367 cubic meters, at a cost of 291 million and 952 thousand riyals, from which four thousand people benefit. .

In addition, Dr. Abu Lahoum, Al-Madani, Awad and Al-Haifi inspected the progress of work at the Atharib checkpoint in Haydan District, which is implemented by the Central Interventions Unit in partnership with the community at a cost of 204 million and 338 thousand riyals, and its storage capacity is 83 thousand and 925 cubic meters, and the number of beneficiaries of the project is five thousand population, and the completion rate reached 76 percent.

They reviewed the progress of work and the completion rate at the Wadi Nakhla checkpoint in Saqin District, which is being implemented with community contributions and support from the Central Interventions Unit, at a cost of 740 million and 495 thousand riyals. The storage capacity of the checkpoint is 1,075,430 cubic meters, and the number of
beneficiaries from it is 20 thousand people, and the percentage of storage capacity of the checkpoint is 1,075,430 cubic meters. Project completion is 47 percent.

They also reviewed the progress of work at the Martyr Commander Wadi Leh checkpoint in Haydan District, which is being implemented by the Road Maintenance Fund with a contribution from the Interventions and Community Unit, with the cost of the project amounting to 364 million and 720 thousand riyals.

Source: Yemen News Agency