Offa Garage Residents Decry Seven Years Water Scarcity

Date: 2015-05-15

Residents of Offa Garage Community in Ilorin, Kwara State, have cried out to the State Government to restore pipe borne water supply to the area.

Some of the residents told the News Agency of Nigeria, in Ilorin on Thursday, that the water stopped flowing seven years ago.

They said this was in spite of repeated appeals to officials of Water Corporation and Ministry of Water Resources in the State to come to their aid.

Alhaji Raimi Alani, the Mogaji Ero-Omo, said the people of the area had suffered a lot from searching for potable water.

He said he had written several letters to the ministry to come to their aid and provide them with water, all to no avail.

Alani explained that the community used to enjoy pipe borne water, but the pipes were destroyed and supply cut off due to road construction in the area about seven years ago.

A resident, Mrs Hannah Wuraola, corroborated the view, adding that they had been battling with the problem for about seven years, and attributed it to the road constructed in the area.

"The pipes were damaged during road construction and we

re not re-connected in spite of the promise by the contractors to do so.

"In Offa Garage, you cannot get water if you have not dug a well. But not everybody can afford that because it is very expensive," she said.

Another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said residents who had boreholes were reluctant to help because people used to disturb them at odd hours to fetch water.

"They won't allow you to sleep. People are in my house to fetch water as early as 4am, disturbing my sleep.

"But as human being, I cannot send them away, I have to open my gate for them to fetch water", a landlord said.

But the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Mr Olaitan Adefila, said the community's claim cannot be true.

"It is most ridiculous for anybody to say that there is no water supply in an area for seven years. I know it is impracticable," he emphasised. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Forgo Battery     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Women Radio     Salaudeen Oyewale     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Kwara Politics     Olatunde Michaels     CCT     Oni Adebayo     Laboratory-to-Product     Sunday Fagbemi     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ado Bayero     Iyiola Oyedepo     Press Release     Daud Adeshola     Basit Olatunji     Salman Alada     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Alikinla     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Kwara Metro Park     School Of Nursing     Orisun Igbomina     07039448763     David Adesina     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Leke Ogungbe     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Abdulmutalib Shittu     EndSARS     Seed Technologies     Razaq Atunwa     Bareke     Obuh     Radio Kwara     Lanre Issa-Onilu     TETFUND     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Muhammed Abdullahi     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Islamic Development Bank     Hijaab     Ibrahim Akaje     April 11     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Paul Odama     Ilorin     Ojo Fadumila     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Akanbi-Oke     Saidu Isa     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Saad Belgore     Maryam Ado Bayero     IsDB     Omoniyi Ayinla     Ibrahim Mashood     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Musa Alhassan Buge     Ahmed Bayero     Rachael Obisesan     Ishaq Oloyede     Agboola Babatunde     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Balogun Fulani     Bello Taoheed Abubakar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Bola Shagaya     Bello Abubakar     Kayode Ishola     Kulende-UITH     Olohungbebe     Awili Pedro     Gbugbu     Babajide Ajayi     Tunde Yusuf     Baaziki Sulaiman     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Kunle Akogun     Sardauna     Gobir Organization Foundation     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Ghali Alaaya     Suleiman Mora Omar     IYA YUSUF     TESCOM     Sherif Shagaya     Abdulkadir Orire     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Biliaminu Aliu     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     FERMA     VADA     Alabere     Aliyu Muyideen     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Col. Adedipe     Yekini Adio     Gbemisola Saraki     Dorcas Afeniforo     Sun Qing Rong     Arinola Lawal     Kwasu     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Daud Adeshola     Isau     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     John Kehinde Salako     Adedipe     Mazars Consulting     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Kehinde Baale     Kemi Adeosun     Saba Mamman Daniel     Maigida Soludero Transit     Abubakar Baba     Olaitan Buraimoh     Wahab Isa     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Abubakar Aliagan     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Olatunde Michaels     Hamza Usman     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Lawal Olohungbebe     Osinbajo     CKNG     BECE     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Dan Iya     Adamu Atta     Elections     Revenue Court     Dele Belgore     Shehu Adaramaja     Salaudeen Oyewale     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Gabriel Fashanu     Radio SBS