The Lagos State Government has raised alarm over the quality of water people in Lekki consume, saying many who drill boreholes in the area are likely drinking “shit water.”
The warning came from Mahmood Adegbite, Permanent Secretary of the Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, during a recent stakeholders meeting.
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
“However, if we are able to treat all the waste water within this axis which we have plans for, we should be able to also eradicate any form of disease that might result as result of non-treatment of our waste”
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He added that the government still has a lot to do to tackle flooding in the state, saying, “Yesterday, it rained heavily which is unusual because this is supposed to be August break. However, we started having it because of a lot of complex issues.
“Basically, in terms of flooding, despite the fact that we have committed so much, however, we still need a lot to do in that space.”
See some reactions below:
@cisl_d: “Last warning!!!! Stop investing in Lagos. I am not a prophet of doom…… something very devastating will happen in Lagos within the next 7years….stay away for now.”
@iam_damayor: “The same Lagos that somebody built and discovered!”
@musajidda: “Ahaa may be that is why suckaway no dey ever full for Lekki.”