The
immediate past Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Port Harcourt City Council,
Barrister Clifford Oparaodu, has assured residents of Rivers State that the
present administration led by Chief Nyesom Wike was committed to ensuring safe
and quality water and good sanitation in the state.
Oparaodu,
a legal practitioner, who stated this last Friday shortly after the launching
of Urban Water Sector Reform and Port Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation
project in Port Harcourt, said the project was part of the sector’s institutional
reform embarked upon by Governor Wike to provide better treated water to the
people resident in Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas of the
state.
He
said the implementation of the new water reform was heralding a new era where
the basic objective was to provide clean water supply and healthy environment
that would promote good human health, stressing that the Rivers State Water
Sector Development Law was passed 2012.
The
ex-local government boss used the opportunity to commend the Rivers State
Government under the leadership of Governor Wike for giving priority attention
to potable water supply in the state by signing all relevant agreements and
bringing to manifest reality the execution of the project.
According
to him,’’It is important to commend all institutional counterpart funders for
having the trust on the present administration to partner in providing the
necessary support for the achievement of the water and sanitation project’’.
Oparaodu
assured investment partners: African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank,
that the state government was determined to ensure the success of the project
because of its focus on delivering services to the people of Rivers State.
The
Tide learnt that residents of Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government
Areas, the conglomeration forming the state capital, were expected to benefit
from the water and sanitation project, which is estimated to cost $328million
(about N65,229,379,188.087), with about two million people expected to benefit
from scheme
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