By Oboh Agbonkhese
Last week, rights groups, labour leaders and activists got together in a rountable to examine moves by Lagos State Government to privatise water distribution in the state, especially the Adiyan II Waterworks.
Their conclusion was that access to clean, safe, equitable and affordable water is a human right and must be treated as such, which is at variance with private corporations’ sole objective which is profit-making.
They argued that the multinationals that Lagos Water Corporation, LWC, shortlisted for the privatisation scheme cannot be trusted, as they had failed in projects they embarked on in India, the US, Morocco, Spain, led to loss of jobs in Rwanda, with many of the corporations’ CEOs being investigated for shady deals.
According to them, multinational corporations and world monetary bodies are using Lagos as a test case to “colonise”…
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