Dear Forum Fellow Members,
We have had the need to address this house today, the 21st day of January, 2015 on the controversy surrounding the Esan North water project that has been embarked on by the Fed Ministry of water Resources.
This honorable house would recall that in the second quarter of last year, 2014, the admin of this forum constituted a committee, ably chaired by my our dear brother Kareem Ehi Ojeaga, we also have John Ewah, Josephine Akioyamen, Prince Kenneth Edenojie and Cherish Albert Akhimiemona and yours sincerely, DOR, to look into the reason(s) behind the "failed" project. We had online meetings severally and yours sincerely, being an FCT resident was mandated to take a letter of inquiry directed to the Hon Minister of Water Resources.
The letter was actually done and duly initialed by the members of the committee and I did visit the office personally and delivered the letter which was acknowledged by the personal Secretary of the Minister. Between August last year and now when the letters were delivered to the Minister, the office of the Rt Hon Friday Itulah and Senator Odion Ugbesia, none of them replied those letters. But due to the controversy the issue has generated in the house and the latest post made by DW alleging that the sum of N2.5b voted for the project has been pocketed by Uromi people in Abuja, I decided to pay a visit to the Water Resources Ministry today again .......... The information that was given at the Minister`s office today by one of her aids, is a bit cheering if the reasons for the post made yesterday were genuine..
I was authoritatively informed today, that the project, as far as giving water to Uromi people were concerned is "completed and piped to Uromi, but however, Ugboha community housing the project is yet to have the water piped to their streets. We understand the APC govt in Edo state instigated the community to demonstrate against the commissioning by the Vice President Arc Nemadi Sambo. However, through serious pressure by our Minister and the Minister of Works who was always mounting pressure on madam Minister, the President has approved the release of funds to have the water piped to all the streets in Ugboha and it is only when this is completed that you can have water running in Uromi and all other communities joined in the project and the formal commissioning takes place"....
He went on to say......"It is a very successful project, we visited the site with former Information minister Labaran Maku during the good governance tour of last year in Edo state".
I just quoted the Minister`s aid above and it may interest the house that I had our conversation taped. Its recorded...........With this, I think all we need to do as a people is to be calm and pray for the money to be released on time and have the project completed so that water can run in all our communities as we used to have it in the days of our father Chief Tony Enahoro.
This does not call for any cheap blackmail, especially by those who politicize everything. Uromi is bigger than any individual. We respect our leaders from all political parties, as far as they are Uromi sons and daughters. We will not allow any individual or group to drag the names of our leaders dead or alive into unnecessary controversy.. It may interest the house to know however, that the reticulation or distribution of water is the sole responsibility of the state government and not the Federal. The Federal does the major works and leaves the distribution to the state. But in a failed state like ours, where the state government under Oshiomhole has failed in his statutory responsibility of providing pipe burn water for the people, especially when the governor wickedly single Uromi out for isolation and marginalization, we will always have Federal coming to our aid to almost do councilors projects for us and when there are little delays, the wanabies in the house would create for themselves empires of blackmail.
We will continue to update the house with any latest development on this issue. But on the General hospital road project, I will brief the house tomorrow as soon as I gather enough facts.
I thank you all most sincerely for your time. God bless you all.
I thank you all most sincerely for your time. God bless you all.
God bless our dear King
God bless our dear Kingdom of Uromi
God bless Uromi Voice.
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