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  • Updated: January 21, 2023

Any Act to Meet Citizens' Water Needs is Progressive - Group To Oyetola's NGO

Any Act to Meet Citizens' Water Needs is Progressive - Group

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Coalition for Good Governance (C4GG) has described statement credited to a group called Osun Masterminds on the 100 days programme of the Osun State Government as a disservice to activism and advocacy.

This is as it wondered what moral right a group that worked for Gboyega Oyetola for four years has to criticise water provision for the citizenry.

In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by its Executive Director, Adetayo Adegbemle and Secretary Hafsat Alimi, the group lambasted those whom it alleged sold their conscience for peanuts for four years and are now parading the space against programmes designed to meet the immediate needs of Osun people.

"We read with regret the effrontery of a group, Osun Masterminds, who worked tirelessly to support the former Governor Oyetola, to criticise a government that has mapped out six short term palliative plans to address the needs of Osun people.

"For four years, Osun Masterminds was issuing illegitimate defence of Oyetola even when the former refused to accept the will of the people arising from July 16 election.

"For four years, Osun Masterminds ignored the pains and rigours of several towns and villages in Osun State, and in playing politics with serious matters, also became blind to millions of dollars spent by their principal that has yielded no results.

"Random research into the state of Potable Water Supplies will reveal the endemic nature the water problem is.

"Almost all the water works are not working. Many of the water works and mini-water schemes in the state are in different states of dilapidation and disrepair, the $106m Ilesa Water project has achieved zero output, yet, the Oyetola NGO was then busy hailing its paymaster. Osun Masterminds was so discredited that many citizens wondered why members lacked any grain of credibility.

"A Non-Governmental Organisation, Urban Alert, had scored the state government under Gboyega Oyetola low in the provision of water supply, saying that the government appeared incapacitated to ensure adequacy in water supply.

"Under the same government, a resident of Inisa, Odo-Otin, Local Government, Mr Waheed Afolabi, said none of the communities in the local government have received water supply since year 2014. 

"All these are facts available to anyone willing and interested in the truth, and not politics.

"As of today in Osun, the government has done well to have mapped out such short term plans to be followed by medium term amd long term plans.

"How can Osun Masterminds expect major water works to be refurbished and fixed under 100 days when its paymaster failed to do same under four years?

"Is Osun Masterminds so insensitive to its lack of credibility to launch an illogical attacks on a programme widely acclaimed as pro-people and pro-masses?"

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