One of the major items on the United Nations’ enunciated and much harped on Sustainable Development Goals is to ensure “the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” and according to the result of one of the painstaking researches of one H.H. Mitchell, water forms 83% of the lungs, 79% of the muscles and kidneys, 73% of the brain and heart, 64% of the skin and 31% of even the bones, so the opinion that water is the essence of life or that water is life is quite sustainable, requiring no further emphasis.
As a leader with unquenchable desire towards fulfilling his social contract with his people, MR FULFILLMENT: Governor IFEANYI Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has positioned his administration in a way that would ensure that in no distant time, water will flow from the valleys of Mpu to the ancient Milliken Hill down to the lakes in Nike and right across the cities and suburbs of Enugu State. Nevertheless, as the “fantastic manager of resources” undertakes to engage the gargantuan task of ensuring the provision and sustainable management of healthy water and sanitation for the worthy citizens of Enugu State, we ought to still appreciate that the planet as a whole is suffering from an unprecedented water crisis and solving it requires concerted action by institutions and citizens.
Consequently, with our relative awareness that every challenge or progress in life is SUI GENERIS; unique to the environment, it is essential to consider the ugly reality that Enugu State is naturally situated in in a characteristically hilly and mountainous terrain and geographically challenged from accessing underground water supply as a result of the terrible depth which is estimated to be averagely 360 fits as against between 10 to 20 fits that are obtainable in Lagos or Delta states accordingly.
Therefore, it is natural for us to contextualise our case in order to make proper assessment of the situation and shower accolades on any government that ends up prioritising the provision of a healthy and sustainable water scheme for our state and beyond. Therefore, it is pertinent to put it down in our precious archive that once upon a time, in the days of the excruciating water scarcity in the hilly Coal City, there emerged a humane leader with a sound understanding of water as the essence of life and decided to set up a functional parastatal, creating hundreds of sudden employment opportunities for the teeming skilled youths that would ensure that the child in Abakpa would enjoy access to water, the same way the child in Independence Layout would.
CETERIS PARIBUS, it becomes part of my fundamental civil rights at this point to censor what is abhorred and applaud what is right and in doing that I wish to every earnest citizen of Enugu State to stand with Gburu Gburu as he decides to once more, unload the innovativeness of his leadership acumen in the provision of healthy and sustainable water management and sanitation for all along with a significant stipulation of the Sustainable Development Goals: a model of development strategies recommended by the United Nations for the enthronement of fairness, equality and justice in the governance of man.
ENUGU STATE IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD.
WRITTEN BY
HON. MRS. BIBIAN ANEKWE.
SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT (SSA) TO THE GOVERNOR ON MOBILIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT.
ENUGU DI N’AKA CHUKWU MOVEMENT (DG.)
