By Dipo Olowookere

Lagos State government has said by the first quarter of next year, it would begin to issue licences and permits before any borehole is drilled for water in any part of the state.

Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission, Mrs Funke Femi Adepoju, while addressing stakeholders at a meeting, explained that this move was to safeguard residents of the metropolis.

The meeting was attended by members of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Financial Institutions, Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) and Association of Water Well Drilling Rig Owners Operators among others.

According to her, the exercise, which is to be launched by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is to regulate the process of water abstraction in the state.

Mrs Adepoju affirmed that licensing was a significant process in the regulation of any industry as the commission was determined to ensure its availability and sustainability to prevent the effect on unregulated water abstraction.

“What is paramount to government is how abstraction affects us as a people not just today but the future with emphases on pollution, contamination of water bodies, saline filtration into the system, over-abstraction and unregulated abstraction,” she stated.

While assuring that only registered companies captured in data will be issued a 2-year renewable license with unique and personalized number, the Executive Secretary explained that the commission was not established for a punitive purpose, but rather to establish standard in the water extraction industry in order to ensure that the health and safety of citizens are not compromised.

According to her, the essence of the engagement was to improve the relationship between stakeholders and government by developing ways to sanitize the industry, stressing that the agency has acquired mobile water test kits which are to be used in testing samples during operation and that approval for the acquisition of a standard laboratory for water testing is on the way.

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We don enter one chance

Lagos, always looking for ways to milk lagosians! You’ll make money in lagos and it will disappear like film trick! God save us

Licence for drilling borehole??

thunder74:
We don enter one chance

only if you know why the advance country against bore holes. It causes earthquakes.

Nigeria is getting there.... Slowly but surely

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They will soon start obtaining licenses before one can have sex in lagos.

Na wao

License means more money for Tinubu.....

Right step.

double bribing for omonile and local govt chairmen .
During survey or whatever can't they ok a spot for borehole , and spare ppl double expenditures.

Weytin almajiri no go see for plate, shior!

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Sanwo-Olu stop this nonsense.

You didn't provide water for residents, they went for the alternative, you now want to stop it.

Nigeria is hell while Lagos is the center of the hell.

Sanwo-Eko tell us more about the Lucifer's projects

Wit the country how can water get 2 my house

Eko ile ogbon....

Yes especially those arrogant Igbos who claim Lagos is no man's land

A Government that cannot provide basic amenities like water for her citizens want to rob same citizens who are willing to provide water for themselves in the name of licence.

Thi government want to suck Nigeria dry for there pocket

Toosure70:
only if you know why the advance country against bore holes. It causes earthquakes.

This is just to collect money from people.

thunder74:
We don enter one chance

I warned you people that Sanwo-Olu won't do better than Ambode.

Any governor that talks too much before he is sworn in, is a scam. Sanwo-Olu is a scam.

Just like David Lyon of Bayelsa now, he's talking too much now. I don't believe he will do well. But let's see how it goes.

OK

The average Nigerian is a coward. If not we would have put things right already.

THE OBNOXIOUS LAW SIGNED BY AMBODE.

A section (7.2.a) in the draft Bill secured the “payment of contracted services and concessions for long term infrastructure investments with an irrevocable Service Payment Order as the first line charge on the State’s Internally Generated Revenue.

In section 7.2.b., it states that, “In the event that the state’s IGR is insufficient or unavailable to discharge its obligations, the state should apply monies due to it from the federal monthly allocation or any other source to secure its payment obligation to contractors and concessionaires under the law.”

“These clauses will make government, through taxpayers money, to pay corporate entities without fail even when there are other pressing issues requiring funding.

“Literally, it is saying if passed, the Lagos State government must pay these corporate entities before spending on salaries, healthcare, roads and so on.

Section 137(1)(a) stipulates that, “No person or group of persons shall sink or cause to be sunk boreholes, hydraulic and other structures connected with the supply of surface ground water or treated water without obtaining the necessary permit from the Office of Drainage Services.”

Section 141(1)(a) says no person or group of persons shall “Abstract water from any lake, river, stream or other natural resources forming part of state water except with the approval of department of water resources of the Office of Drainage Services.

In 141(1)(c), it states that no person or group of persons shall “Make, sell, distribute or cause to be made, sold, or distributed water by container, tanker or any other method whatsoever without a valid licence being issued by the Department of Water Resources of the Office of Drainage Services.”

Toosure70:
only if you know why the advance country against bore holes. It causes earthquakes.

So we should pay for their own negligence of providing portable water for us?

Toosure70:
only if you know why the advance country against bore holes. It causes earthquakes.

Abegi

Earthquake is linked to fault regions.

Stop all these your unproven comments.

When are we going to have licence to carry guns?

water cooperation is in my area but everyone has borehole because the government is not providing water for anybody.... so I should now obtain a license for providing water for myself na wa o... if the system works there would not be any need for anyone to dig a borehole in the first place

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