11/08/2026
OGONI WATER PROJECTS: A PATTERN OF FAILURE AND WASTE MUST END.
While the Honourable Minister of Environment prepares to visit Ogoni again to commission yet another borehole project running into billions of Naira, at the invitation of his partners, we are compelled to remind him of abandoned promises and his pass failures.
Five days after commissioning, the Ebubu Eleme and Gwara water projects collapsed and have remained unfixed till date.
For clarity:
Gwara Water Project: ₦1,799,151,565
Contractor: Surez Global Resources Limited
Ebubu Eleme Water Project: ₦1,074,669,221
Contractor: Duliz Dredging and Construction Ltd
The combined cost of the two failed boreholes is ₦2,873,820,786.
In the coming days, we shall release further details on these companies, how the contracts were awarded, and how the funds were disbursed.
In any environment where public accountability and the rights of citizens are respected, both the Honourable Minister and the Project Coordinator would have resigned by now over this monumental failure.
To plan another visit to Ogoni to commission another borehole, while previous multi-billion Naira projects lie in ruins, shows that looting has become the culture.
There is no problem. My team and I will be on ground to receive the Honourable Minister and to ask him to account for his “good works” in Ogoni land.
The people of Ogoni deserve clean, functional water, not billboards of abandoned projects.We have numerous abandoned water project across Ogoni communities fully paid for,but contractors didn't receive the full payment.
The day of accountability is drawing closer.
Signed,
Dr Fabeke Douglas
Ogoni Liberation Initiative.
BORI, Ogoni Rivers State.