By Ozioruva Aliu
BENIN CITY – THE Edo state authorities yesterday threatened to take acceptable authorized motion towards authorities officers who allotted lands belonging to the State Ministry of Water Sources and Sanitation throughout its amenities within the state capital and past.
The Commissioner answerable for the ministry, Hon Washington Osifo gave this declaration when in firm of the Edo State Public Property Safety Committee led by Eugene Okoloise visited the Ministry’s amenities the place a number of the encroachers who’ve been constructing everlasting buildings claimed they got the allocations by officers of the Water Company which is an company underneath the ministry.
Osifo mentioned “we won’t shut our eyes to the truth that these are authorities properties, we have to reclaim them for the federal government such that authorities can have use for them both authorities and may resolve to do no matter they need to do with it however definitely it shouldn’t go to the palms of people.
“We are going to arrange an inquiry, some names have been talked about, talked about by those that we met on floor, how they got here to it, inquiry will produce acceptable experiences to the ministry and we’ll take acceptable steps towards these concerned.
“No particular person no matter their place within the ministry or company can enter into contractual obligation on behalf of the federal government with out looking for and acquiring the consent of the federal government to enter into the contract and whenever you go into it, it turns into unlawful.
“So what we’re saying is that if whether or not workers of the ministry or workers of the company which is underneath the management of the ministry, nobody has the authorized proper to enter into contractual purposes with anyone to the extent of giving them shanties and a few of them have now progressed to constructing superstructures with concrete blocks on what is meant to be a short lived house.”
On the federal government’s plan to supply public water to the individuals, the Commissioner mentioned the event within the city areas, the federal government of Monday Okpebholo was going into the agricultural areas to supply public water earlier than the city areas which public water infrastructure has been distorted by urbanization actions and the sinking of boreholes by people.
“We’re reviewing the scenario, we need to see whether or not in the present day given the quantity of funding in street, electrical energy, drainage management which were carried out, non-public and public homes constructed , whether or not it’s potential to nonetheless topic these amenities to provide of public water.
“Our goal is that we’re concentrating on rural communities which are essential which are in want of water. We need to begin from there earlier than we progress to the city areas.”
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