THE EDO STATE WATER STORM PROJECT.

The finesse with which our government purported and presented the WATER STORM PROJECT to the people is not what we see today. I can vividly remember the enthusiasm and vigour with which the government attacked the project.... Seven years later, I begin to wonder!

I am not judging who is right or wrong, but I am majorly concerned about what should be, should have been but is not. And I am beginning to think along the line of demolishing of houses for this same project: could it be that these persons sacrificed their houses for nothing? What was the point of rendering thousands homeless without serious consideration when our loving government wasn't ready for this project. Today, the government has displaced some of these persons, and in turn, dug death traps, diseases housing and other communal and biological hazards along the roads and behind our houses!

The questions that keep nabbing me are; where is the money for this lovely project? What happened along the line and why had this project lain abandoned for years? From a very reliable source, we were privy to the information that 25 Billion Naira was sourced from the capital market for this project. Permit me to repeat the figure again, 25 Billion Naira! I am of the opinion that if this amount will not complete this (huge) project, it would have at least gone a long way! What saddened me most was the fact that Phase One of this project has been considered satisfactory by the World Bank. My people the project runs through Uwelu, Evbuotubu, Ekenwan and Ogida, which of these environmental hazards can be considered satisfactory? Is it that the World Bank no longer has standard of judging and approving projects, or that our dearly beloved government deceived them(World Bank)?

My people, when two and two doesn't add up to four, then questions should be raised. We are aware of the 225 million U.S. Dollars loan from world bank which will be paid in three tranches started in 2014 for project completion and only God knows what else. The second tranche of the money received is 75 million dollars, and the amount is for the completion of this darling water storm project. The question is, if 25 billion Naira cannot properly kick-start and raise this project to a reasonable level or extent, how will 14.1 billion Naira(75million U.S Dollars) complete it? I wonder and I am still wondering!

The place of lie sits paramount in our government, and those who can see have seen that there is no water storm project, other than holes dug as traps and houses demolished as punishment... I will leave you with photo clips of this water project, so that you will dorm your opinion first hand from where 25billion naira has sunk into, with another 14.1 billion proposed to follow! EDO, This is a wake up call!!!