The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that those who drill boreholes in the state’s Lekki axis may be drinking “shit water.”
This was disclosed by the permanent secretary during a recent state stakeholders’ meeting.
Adegbite pointed out that Lekki’s contaminated boreholes are dangerous for people’s health, but he also said that treating the waste water would eliminate any disease that would result 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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