Potable Water Supply: Lagos to concession 7 mini, micro waterworks

…Mulls rehabilitation of others nether 2025–2030 plan

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to concession 7 mini and micro waterworks to backstage investors arsenic portion of efforts to boost potable h2o proviso nether its 2025–2030 Strategic Business Plan.

The aviator strategy volition screen waterworks successful Lekki, Akilo, Victoria Island Annex, Magodo, Abesan, Alexander, and Apapa.

According to the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), the inaugural volition beryllium executed done a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) designed to rehabilitate, upgrade, and run the facilities successful tons to financially susceptible investors.

Managing Director of LWC, Engr. Mukhtaar Tijani, announced the program during a stakeholder engagement, noting that lone six of the state’s 48 mini and micro waterworks are presently functional—a concern that underscores the urgency for reform.

“This inaugural volition bring successful backstage assemblage financing, expertise, and innovation to revive Lagos’ h2o proviso system, which has suffered years of underinvestment,” Tijani explained.

The LWC stressed that the strategy is not privatisation, arsenic ownership of the assets volition stay with the authorities government. Instead, backstage operators volition negociate rehabilitation and operations to amended ratio and work delivery.

The bidding process, Tijani assured, volition strictly travel the Lagos State Public Procurement Law of 2012 to guarantee transparency and accountability.

He besides gave assurances of occupation information for LWC staff, urging them to clasp capacity-building opportunities and improved productivity.

“If the aviator strategy succeeds, much waterworks volition beryllium rehabilitated successful phases, with the extremity of expanding entree to potable h2o for millions of Lagos residents,” Tijani said.

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