Saifullah urges govt to complete Pezu Dam

80% of the stone pitching work and 45% of the spillway work on the dam had been completed while 55% was remaining

LAKKI MARWAT:

Senior politician and former provincial minister Humayun Saifullah Khan on Tuesday demanded of the provincial government to complete the construction of Pezu Dam as work has been suspended on the important project due to the non-availability of funds.

In a letter to Chief Secretary Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Dr Shahzad Khan Bangash, he stated that this year there had been large-scale destruction due to floods in the province which had no precedent in the past.

“Since the massive destruction caused by floods in the province this year couldn’t match previous disasters, we are in dire need of building a dam,” he said.

Informing the chief secretary about the progress of work on the under-construction Pezu Dam in Lakki Marwat, he wrote that 80 per cent of the stone pitching work and 45 per cent of the spillway work on the dam had been completed while 55 per cent was remaining.

Saifullah said that apart from this, only 30 per cent of the work on the construction of the two foot wide and deep ditch had been completed while 70 per cent of the work was yet to be completed, adding that due to the non-availability of funds, construction work on the dam had stopped.