Residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital and environs have been assured by Governor Dapo Abiodun of water supply in June this year.
Abiodun said that regular and improved water supply would be restored as soon as the ongoing rehabilitation work on a dam at Arakanga waterworks is completed in June.
The governor was speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on improved water supply and sector reform, held in Abeokuta.
Represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Olatokunbo Talabi, identified lack of maintenance of water production and distribution infrastructures as a critical challenge across the state.
Abiodun, who expressed his concerns over the non-availability of uninterrupted pipe-borne water supply in the state capital, disclosed that he had directed the management of Ogun State Water Corporation to come up with other water production and distribution infrastructure financing gaps for the government’s intervention.
The governor, however, tasked the management of the Ogun State Water Corporation to come up with immediate, medium and long term solutions with costs and timeframe within the next one week with a view to addressing the problem.
The ancient town, it would be recalled, had raised several outcry over the water shortage experienced by residents.
