Oyo State Government Set to Revamp Water Supply Project

The Oyo State government has said it is working out modalities on how to improve its water supply project, especially in the area of provision of adequate potable water.

A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, revealed that the Chairman of the Oyo State Water Corporation, Mr Elias Adeojo, made the remark, on Saturday, during his tour of the Corporation’s facilities across the state.

Adeojo disclosed, in the statement, that the tour was aimed at actualising the rehabilitation, upgrading and expansion of the state’s water supply scheme to improve water supply infrastructure, so as to meet the emerging water demand in the state.

He stressed that the government was committed to the well-being of residents, hence its determination to address all factors besetting water production as enshrined in the present administration’s Omituntun 2.0 mantra.

The Chairman noted that all the moribund equipment of the Corporation would be revamped in order to meet up with the present day need for potable water, noting that abandoned projects would be revisited and reviewed so as to maximise the purpose they were projected for and curb wastage of scarce resources.

On the perennial problem of epileptic power supply to the Corporation’s formations across the state, Adeojo assured that the issue would soon be a thing of the past as all hands were on deck to surmount it by the state government, asserting that alternative power supply would be explored soon when the economic situation of the state improved.

The Chairman, who was accompanied by some directors of the Corporation on the familiarisation visit, went to Ibarapa, Oke-Ogun, Ogbomoso, Oyo, and the Ibadan less city areas of the state.

The statement reveals that the visit would resume next week when it would be the turn of the Corporation’s formations in the Ibadan metropolis.