Dare Babalola
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has made a shocking revelation concerning borehole owners in the Lekki axis of the state.
According to Adegbite, in a viral video, people drilling a borehole in the area are “probably drinking shit water.”
He made this revelation at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, highlighting the dangers of contaminated boreholes in Lekki.
Adegbite noted that the menace poses a health risk, adding 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 a borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
“However, if we are able to treat all the wastewater 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 the 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.”
