Lagos Punishing Residents for Not Providing Water.
Just last week, the Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO), warned The level of insensitivity and arrogance among Nigerian government officials is becoming increasingly unbearable.
She stated that the regulation covering groundwater abstraction, consumption, supply and distribution is embedded in the Borehole regulations introduced in 2022 aimed at preventing pollution and ensuring sustainable water management.
This is exactly how the administration of the late President Muhammadu Buhari introduced the Water Resources Bill 2020 which stipulates that Nigerians should obtain permit from the federal government before drilling boreholes in their homes.
It took the strong resistance of the media; prominent Nigerians; the uncommon wisdom of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiiamila; and the able leadership of the then Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio for the obnoxious bill to die at the National Assembly. The question agitating the minds of many Nigerians is: When will governments across the country let the people breathe? Governments have failed to provide water and electricity for the people. While majority of Nigerians are dying of lack of water and electricity, the privileged ones resorted to the use of generators and solar to power their homes.
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