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By Agbonkhese Oboh
A conjugation for h2o justness has insisted that Lagos Water Corporation, LWC, indispensable convene a genuine broad-based gathering of each stakeholders implicit the projected aviator Public-Private Partnership, PPP, strategy for 7 (7) mini- and micro-waterworks successful the state.
The conjugation comprises the Renevlyn Development Initiative, RDI; Citizens Free Service Forum, CFSF; Environmental Defenders Network, EDEN; Child Health Organisation, CHO; Ecumenical Water Network Africa/Blue Communities Africa, EWNA/BCA, and New Life Community Care Initiative, NELCCI.
According to them, a broad-based stakeholders’ gathering connected the h2o situation successful the authorities volition research apt solutions, including the projected PPP.
But erstwhile a Thursday, September 18 gathering was fixed, the conjugation observed that the stated objectives of the gathering bash not code the concerns they raised astatine a September 9 gathering with the Lagos House of Assembly “where we expressed disinterest successful the PPP arsenic the metallic slug to the Lagos h2o crisis.”
So they rejected the meeting.
However, different radical of CSOs went up with the gathering with the enactment of the LWC, astatine the Water House, Ijora office of the corporation.
They endorsed the privatisation strategy astatine the gathering addressed by the Managing Director of LWC, Engr. Mukhtaar Tijani, who stressed that the superior extremity of the PPP inaugural is to guarantee effectual and sustainable work transportation to residents crossed the state.
Coalition kick
In a missive reiterating their presumption connected PPP strategy for h2o successful Lagos, the conjugation said their telephone for a genuine stakeholder engagement with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, “where options for addressing the h2o situation including the PPP exemplary tin beryllium discussed with a presumption to adopting antiauthoritarian power of water” was non-negotiable.
In the missive addressed to Engr. Tijani, the conjugation said: “Recall that the Chair of the (Lagos Assembly) Committee connected Environment (Parastatal), Shabi Rasheed Adekola, astatine the meeting, mentioned the shortage successful stakeholder consultation and the request to code it.
“In doing that, we anticipated an open-ended meeting, not a closed abstraction which this projected gathering represents.
“In presumption of the supra we respectfully diminution this invitation and impulse the LWC absorption to heed the proposal of the House by convening a genuinely people-focused consultation wherever civilian nine and different stakeholders successful Lagos tin explicit their views and marque propositions.”
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