[3] Zobe Dam was conceived in the late 1970s during the administration of General Olusegun Obasanjo and was planned to supply 50% of drinking water for Katsina state while also supporting irrigation farming in the Dutsinma area.
The farmers, who were inadequately compensated when the dam site was acquired, were destitute with the rainy season nearing its end and their corps destroyed.
[4] In August 2003, a past director of Katsina State Water Board said lack of focus and direction were the main obstacles to completion of Zobe Dam.
[9] In June 2009, the Katsina State Government announced plans to set up a hydropower station at the unused dam to boost power supplies to the area and support mineral processing at the site.
[12] In August 2003, Governor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said the state government had allocated #317 million in funding for a 16-kilometer supply of water from Zobe Dam to Dutsing town, due to be completed in September that year.
[15] In December 2009, the Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili, discussed revised estimates for the Zobe Water Supply project.
[16] In March 2010, the Katsina State Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Nasiru Danmusa, said Zobe Dam and others would soon be completed in due course.