OGUN RESTATES COMMITMENT TO ALL-YEAR ROUND PROVISION OF POTABLE WATER The Ogun State government says making potable water available for residents of the State is one of its priorities, but that lack of constant power supply has been a challenge for achieving this dream. The government is therefore fine tuning arrangements with the Management of Ibadan Distribution Company on ways of increasing power supply needed to pump out water for consumption. Commissioner for Special Duties, Chief Olu Odeyemi who made this revelation while addressing newsmen during an assessment tour of water facilities across the three Senatorial districts of the State, added that government was equally moving to ensure that transmission lines to serve all the major water schemes across the State were put in place. Reiterating that government would leave no stone unturned to ensure the welfare of the citizenry, the Commissioner said the tour would enable his Ministry have a first knowledge of the challenges and work out modalities of surmounting them. Our visits to Water stations in Ogun Central, Ibara booster station, Arakanga old and new schemes are pointers to the fact that this government is committed to putting an end to shortage of water in all parts of the State. All we have noted on this assessment tour would be sent to the governor in a couple of weeks from now, Ogun State residents would have cause to smile again, Odeyemi said. The Commissioner called on the Federal Government to expedite actions on the Ota main Water scheme, a project it was driving, noting that the State government was ready to collaborate with the government at the centre to complete it for the benefit of residents in the area. The Ota main Water scheme, a project handled by the Federal government should be re-visited as the State government is ready to collaborate to complete the abandoned project. When this is completed, residents of Ota and Ijoko areas will have no cause to run helter skelter in search for water againhe remarked. Corroborating the Commissioner’s call, General Manager of the Ogun State Water Corporation, Engr. Monsurat Agboola appealed to the Federal government to complete the abandoned Ota main Water Scheme which it started in 2004, stressing that Ota has grown into a big community with the daily influx of investors and industrialists. According to Agboola, the existing pipeline networks were not enough to meet the demands of residents and industrialists, hence the need for the Federal Government to hasten the completion of the abandoned project. The Federal Government has expended huge amount of money on the procurement of equipment, we plead with the Minister for Water Resources to use her office in seeing to the completion of the water Scheme, she appealed.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:09:25 +0000
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