Former President Olusegun Obasanjo as shared his concern over the drilling of boreholes at home, warning that repercussions of such action could be devastating.
Speaking via a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, he lamented that the incessant construction of boreholes particularly in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, was as a result of failure of subsequent administrations to sustain the Oyan Dam project embarked on by his military administration in 1977.
He shared his concern over the situation when management and staff of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority led by the Managing Director, Adedeji Ashiru, visited him on the occasion of the World Water Day at the weekend.
The former President called for the elimination of waste of water resources, stressing that it would be impossible to achieve food sufficiency and security without effective water management.
He hinted that due to the failure of the dam project, the residents of Abeokuta embraced digging of boreholes everywhere to source for water, adding that this however comes with a repercussion that nobody for now may know how devastating it could be.
