The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday restated its rejection of the Waterways Resources Bill of the federal government.
It described the insistence of the federal government to pass the ‘repeatedly rejected’ Bill as “another instance of how the government is often hell-bent on going ahead with what majority of Nigerians frown at while neglecting the ones Nigerians yearn for.”
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National Publicity Secretary of the group, Jare Ajayi, stated this in a statement while reacting to the recent comment by the Minister of Water Resources, Malam Suleiman Adamu.
Adamu had at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum stated that the Bill provided for professional and efficient management of all surface and groundwater for the use of all Nigerians, adding it would also ensure that the nation’s water resources are protected, used, developed, conserved, and managed in a sustainable manner for the benefits of all Nigerians.
But Afenifere advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to forget the bill and urged it to set the machinery in motion for the return of the country to true federalism.
“The minister’s assertion smacks of arrogance, disdain for the people of Nigeria and insensitivity to the things that are of immediate concern to Nigerians,” he said.
