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The immediate past
administration credited to itself monumental
achievements in the area of provision of
urban and rural water in the State. This
claim was anchored by some bodies that even
went ahead and presented awards to the
Governor at elaborate ceremonies. By these
awards, it was thought by the people of
Nigeria and Kogites in diaspora that the
Government had adequately addressed the
water needs of the people.
Alhaji Ibrahim Idris
on assumption of office realized that the
award of excellence in the area of provision
of water was a smokes creen and a charade.
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The Lokoja water
works supplied Four hundred thousand liters
of water to the people of the metropolitan
city as against its requirement of about ten
million liters daily. There was no stock of
chemicals at the water board and diesel
which is an essential product in propelling
the generating sets was purchased in mere
drums for use. Most of the facilities used
by the Board had broken down and those in
the Local Government Area were nothing to
write home about. Contrary to the claim of
the last administration and the organizers
of award of excellence for provision of
urban and rural water, the water situation
was inadequate and Kogites across the State
sourced for water from streams and stagnant
pool of water. Taps had not run for more
than ten years in some parts of Lokoja
metropolis and the reticulated part covered
about one tenth of the city.
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Alhaji Ibrahim Idris
took the bull by the horn in his
determination to provide water to the
teeming population of the capital city and
the Local Government Areas. Within two
month of assumption of duties, he provided
the sum of N10. million to the Water Board
for procurement of chemical and also
facilitated regular supply of diesel .
Within one year of the life of the
administration of Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, the
Lokoja Water Board was able to generate two
million gallons of water for use of the
inhabitants of the metropolitan city.
The government
aggressively pursued the issue of supply of
water to the people of the State by
embarking on the provision of packaged water
treatment plants, motorized boreholes and
drilling of hand pump boreholes. |
