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Water Supply: World Bank Spends $120m On Nigerian Cities
The World Bank is to provide additional 120 million dollars credit facility to Nigeria to boost water supply in urban cities, the Coordinator of the project, Mr Benson Ajisegiri, said.
Ajisegeri, Coordinator of the National Urban Water Sector Reform Project, said this in an interview with The Tide source recently in Abuja.
Ajisegiri said the first phase of the project was being implemented in Kaduna, Ogun and Enugu, states while the second phase was ongoing in Cross River and Lagos states.
He said the first phase of the project would end in September 2013 while the second phase would extend to May 31, 2016.
“We started with the first phase in Ogun, Kaduna and Enugu states which started with 120 million dollars; later on, additional financing of 80 million dollars was added so, for the first phase, it became 200 million dollars.
“Shortly after that, in 2005, we went with the second phase and it had Lagos and Cross River States.
“Recently, from the current borrowing plan of Nigeria, there is additional financing of 120 million dollars being added to the 200 million dollars to make the 2nd phase to be 320 million dollars.
“It is an extension and that extension will take us to 2016 because of the additional financing.’’
Ajisegiri said the objective of the project was to improve access to potable water in the 14 towns.
He said the project would also help to improve the commercial and financial operation of the state water agencies to, enable them to recover cost in water delivery.
According to him, the funds will be used to rehabilitate surface schemes in selected towns.
“We are using the funds to rehabilite surface water schemes that will supply water to the urban centre; in Ogun State.
“It covers Abeokuta, Ojere, Sagamu, Ijebu Ode, Apoje and Ijebu Igbo; in Kaduna State, we have about six towns – Kaduna, Zaria, Zonkwa, Kanfacha , Koi or so and in Enugu, two towns, Enugu metropolis and Nsukka.
“In Cross River, we have started with four towns and two additional towns are being added; in Calabar 24/7, we have Calabar, Ikom, Obudu and Ogoja, they are now adding Itigidi and Obubra.
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