Lagos communities lament on water scarcity
They also lamented what they described as “betrayal” by their elected representatives at all levels of government, whom they accused of serially reneging on promises of providing lacking social amenities for them.
The community people aired their views in a town hall meeting, last week, at the residence of the Baale of Idi-Araba, Chief Emmanuel Olorunwa when a team from Corporate Accountability and Public Participation, CAPPA, visited to obtain first-hand information on how they are coping with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Baale of Idi-Araba, Chief Emmanuel Olorunwa, while welcoming the team explained that Gbagada and Oworonshoki communities had suffered neglect under successive administrations in Lagos, hence their SOS message to the incumbent governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Mrs. Adeola Gbadamosi, a mother of five children, narrated how women in the community wake up as early as 5a.m. to look for water and most times spend as much as N1,000 a day to get water from private water vendors.
Adeola also revealed that the situation in the communities, particularly Oworonshoki waterfront, was worse during the rains as people find it almost impossible to wade through the mud and waste that take up the only access road.
Another resident, Iya Aafin Oluwaloremi, said the failure of government to provide pipe-borne water has forced many of the locals to depend solely on people with means for tap water or the private water vendors patronised at exorbitant rates.
She added that “you cannot imagine how much we spend for just a pale of water, talk more of the number that can satisfy domestic and other uses.
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