Office of the Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State through its permanent secretary, Mahmood Adegbite has raised concerns about the quality of water in Lekki. He said that people drilling boreholes in the Lekki axis of the state are probably drinking contaminated “shit water.”
He made his concern known while speaking at a stakeholder meeting in the state. Adegbite revealed that the contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose a health risk and added that the treatment of wastewater 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”
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.”
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