Residents of Kado Estates and the Kado-Kuchi community in Abuja have been without a veritable water supply since June when a major pipeline supplying the region’s water was cut.
Many appeals have been made to the FCTWB and the FCDA about the pipeline which has not been addressed yet and residents are forced to use water tankers at a very high cost.
One of the facility managers at Lakeview Homes Estate, Bode Adejumo, also complained about the incident that has been happening continuously by pointing out some of the areas being affected as Next Cash and Carry, NAF Conference Centre, Custom Quarters, Navy Quarters, Lakeview Homes Phase II, Laton Ground and Kado-Kuchi community. Adejumo wrote that residents have been compelled to pay enormous amounts for water bills and have been without water for more than three months.
Adejumo said that the FCT Water Board receives millions of Naira on a weekly or monthly basis, yet the broken pipeline has not been fixed.
The FCTWB and the FCDA have blamed engineering challenges as some of the causes of the delay and according to reports, the FCDA has recommended that the people of the community should fix the problem themselves.
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Taking water from the water tankers which cost between N35,000 and N38,000 each has become very costly to most families in the region.
They say there are about 148 residential houses in Lakeview Homes and the cost of water being accumulated is increasingly becoming a burden. Adejumo further said that house helps are now compelled to move around, looking for water, with buckets and gallons, thus adding to the woes.
Residents are also experiencing extra burdens as they continue to be charged for water services in which they are not benefiting. It has got worse with FCT tenement rate officials threatening to demand charges of water services on the scarcity backdrop.
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A common problem of self-organization attempts is the emergence of futile efforts carrying concerns of mismanagement and corruption.
Adejumo therefore ended by asking about the appropriateness of the current system of water management and raised doubts about the seriousness of the Government to eradicate existing problems.
