ERA LAUNCHES FRESH CAMPAIGN AGAINST WORLD BANK
ON LAGOS WATER
BIODUN OGUNLEYE
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU
The Environmental Rights Action[ERA] has launched a renewed
but sustained efforts at making every World Bank assisted project on water display
more transparency or probity.
In his address to the gathering at the firms office in
Lagos, Nigeria, the Director , Corporate Accountability, Mr Bode Oluwafemi said
that they will not stop until they are confident that the yearnings of the
public is met as far as the issue of
water was concerned in Nigeria.
He noted that as at press time another tranche of loans running
into several millions of dollars have been approved for the state, as he
accused the Bretton Woods institution
for lying to them on there relationship with Lagos state on water.
In his own opinion, Mr Tunde Akanni, Senior Lecturer, Lagos
state University said that water will be the next possible topical issue
that will lead to war in Nigeria
He lashed out at the government at all tiers in Nigeria for
been complacent on the issues of provisions of amenities for the society.
He took a cursory look at the activities of the American Water
Works Associations and charged every media practitioner in the land to source
for as much information as possible on
various subjects on water from web portal www.jstor.org
.
He paid tributes to the late Aaron Schwarz who committed
suicide at the age of 26 years after been taken to court by www.jstor.org over an intellectual rights
situation.
In a related issue, Executive Director ,Media Support
Center, Mr Wale Fatade told the gathering that the media has a great role to
play to make the current campaign spearheaded by ERA on water work out
effectively.
He told the gathering that the climatic debate was actually
real as the floodgates of heaven has opened and it was raining very heavily.
He urged the media to form a think tank so that stories could
be generated to promote a service based journalism not just for today but form
the future.
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