The Bank of Industry (BoI) and Gombe State
Government yesterday signed a N360million agreement for the deployment of
pay-as-you-go solar home systems in selected rural communities of the state.
Gombe is one of the states that benefitted
from the first phase of the BoI/UNDP rural electrification programme involving
one community in each of the six geo-political zones. The success of the
project had prompted the Gombe State executive governor, Dr. Ibrahim Damkambo to seek its replication in another nine local government areas of the
state.
The project, which is expected to commence with the deployment of stand-alone solar
home systems in Lule 1 and 2 communities in Dukku local government area and
Pata community in Yemaltu Debba, would be co- funded by the BoI and Gombe State
Government to the equal sum of N180million each.
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