The Nupe Foundation Elders Council has approved the setting up of seven committees including that of the development of the Hydro carbon and solid mineral deposit in the Nupe land with a view to improving the economic prosperity of its people.
In a communiqué at the end of the meeting of the council under the Chairmanship of Former Chief Judge of the federation, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, held at the Wadata palace of the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar in Bida, the foundation disclosed that the decisions were based on the issues raised by the Royal father in his opening remark.
The Estu nupe had decried the non completion of geological and seismic survey of the Hydro carbon deposit in the Bida basin as well as the delay in the implementation of the Hydro Power Production Area Development Commission (HYPPADEC) law.
The Etsu also expressed regret that the vast agricultural potential of the land was not been used to improve the lives of the people of the area while also decrying the slow pace of work on the dredging of the River Niger.
He lamented that the road and bridge linking Nupe in kwara and Niger through Bida to Nupeko and Patigi in Kwara state were abandoned by the federal government.
The communiqué signed by Engineer Yabagi Sani, the council resolved to set up committees on Agricultural development, Hydrocarbon and solid mineral as well as Educational development committee.
Other committees set up to fashion out solution to the problem facing the Nupe land were that of infrastructural development, HYPPADEC, socio- cultural committee as well as a committee on Trade and investment.
While the Communiqué stated that the aim of the meeting was to bring the elders together to resolve the socio economic problems facing the people it also read in part, “the council noted that the situation highlighted above is responsible for the increasing rate of unemployment among youths with its attendant consequence of increase in crime rate in the society”