The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has criticized the Lagos State Government after an official admitted that residents in the Lekki Peninsula might be drinking water from boreholes contaminated with faecal matter. CAPPA attributes this issue to years of neglect and underinvestment in the state’s public water system, which has forced residents to rely on these unsafe self-supplied sources. The organization is urging the government to make urgent public investments in water and sanitation services, suspend market-driven water reforms, and implement a publicly managed, community-led governance system. They argue that residents are victims of policy failure and that the government must provide safe public water alternatives before it regulates borehole drilling.

Source: Nature News