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Dry season: Akoko residents lament water shortage

By Jimoh Ahmed, Owo

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As the dry season is biting hard, Akoko residents have started lamenting the acute shortage of water and its attendant problems.

The Hope findings revealed that nearly all towns and villages in the area are now faced with acute shortage of water even as the fast rate of developmental growth in the area has led to increase in population and the demand for water.

Investigation also showed that many people are now into water business because it is very lucrative.

In separate chats with residents of Ese, Ikun, Eriti, Ajowa and Afin Akoko on the way out of the annual water problem in Akokoland, an Ese Akoko community leader,  Mr Sunday Dada, who lamented the rate at which residents search for water, called on government to sink more boreholes in neighbourhood as a temporary measure while the Awara Dam should be reactivated and made functional

A resident of Ikun Akoko in Akoko Southwest local government, Mrs Anike Ologunofe, said only very few boreholes are functional and they are not enough for the people,  calling on government, politicians and good Samaritans to put in place more of it for the use of the people.

Chief Jerome Oloruntoke from Eriti Akoko, who posited that the importance of water cannot be over emphasized in the quest to have good health, said that people need good water from undoubtful sources.

He therefore called on all tiers of government in the country to do the needful.

They were unanimous in calling on the Ondo State Government to revisit Awara Dam in Ikare Akoko and the Little Sse dam while the damaged boreholes need to be fixed.

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