[4][5] The idea of the project might have started in the 1960s following extensive land use surveys and technical assistance by the British Overseas Development Authority (ODA) and USAID.
The construction of the Tiga and Challawa Gorge dams upstream was the backbone of KRP a development that stalled flooding.
[7] The Federal Government of Nigeria took over the custody of KRP through the Hadejia Jama'are River Basin Development Authority.
[8] Other officials who participated at the commissioning were the Fair Chief for Jigawa State Service of Water Assets, Hon.
Ibrahim Muhammed Garba, Birnin Kudu Nearby Government Executive, Magagi Yusuf, State Government authorities as well as certain Chiefs and Agent Heads of the Bureaucratic Service of Water Assets and Sterilization, with local area leaders, women, youths, and children in the community.
[10] KRP is challenged for causing landscape desiccation in the Lake Chad basin through impounding of water in dams.