By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Father and son were among four employees of the Bauchi State Urban Water Supply who tragically lost their lives on Sunday April 20, 2025, while on a routine maintenance duty.
According to a source close to the Agency, the victims drowned in the water treatment plant of the Gubi Dam which supplies water to the Bauchi metropolis ,while on a routine cleaning exercise.
“It happened that they were cleaning the water system where the water being supplied to Bauchi metropolis is treated.
“We learnt that as they were cleaning the reservoir as usual they saw some fish inside, one of them was trying to catch the fish, but the fish continued to descend deeper into the system.
“As he was insistence on catching the fish, he got drowned in the process.
“Tragically, one of his colleagues who attempted to rescue him also got drowned himself.
“It was in the face of this unfortunate development that the third and fourth persons who also tried to save their colleagues equally got drowned”, one of the staff members volunteered.
The source also gave the names of the victims as Jamilu Yunusa ,Ibrahim Musa ,Shu’aibu Hamza and Abdulmalik Ibrahim Jamza
According to him, “the four victims, have been buried today( Sunday ) according to Islamic rights.”
Two of the victims were said to be permanent staff of the water agency while two are casual workers.
As at the time of reporting ,neither the Bauchi State Government through the Water Agency, nor the Police had reacted to the development.
However, our source disclosed that the State Commissioner for Water Resources Nuhu Zaki, and some staff of the agency including its General Manager were part of the sympathizers who witnessed the burial ceremonies of the deceased.
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