Ubah: We’ll Declare State of Emergency on Water Supply

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, has promised to declare a state of emergency in the area of water supply to provide for the people, a potable water system that is in sync with the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Ubah, therefore, told the people of the state that the seemingly intractable problems associated with potable water in the state would be accorded priority, noting that the state Water Corporation is comatose for more than a decade and to which Governor Peter Obi extended no attention.

The LP candidate said it was worrisome that 22 years after the creation of the state, it has no potable water supply source and that despite being one of the key points of the United Nation's MDGs the state government has looked away from a well reticulated water supply.

"Most communities in Anambra now rely on streams, boreholes and other sources of untreated water for their needs. We will declare a state of Emergency on water supply in the state and also set up a panel of experts to ascertain the issues and concerns restraining the development of this sector, with a view to resuscitating the state's Water Corporation Board."

The LP standard-bearer said the dependence of the citizens on the unhygienic and unhealthy sources of water supply in a 21st century Nigeria is inexplicable and regrettable, hence must be aggressively tackled.

The panel of water experts and engineers, according to Ubah, would investigate the challenges and viability of all the existing water programmes, "including but not limited to Greater Onitsha, Awka, and Obizi water projects," he said.