Soyinka Warns Buhari Administration On Passage Of Water Resources Bill.

The re-introduction of the water resources bill by the Buhari administration has drawn heated criticism from Professor Soyinka

– The Nobel laureate lambasted the administration which he described as “failed” for reintroducing a bill that was earlier dropped due to public outrage

– The controversial bill when passed into law will hand the Nigerian president “absolute control over the nation’s entire water resources

Professor Wole Soyinka has condemned the Nigerian government’s reintroduction of the Bill on National Water Resources 2020 to the National Assembly.

Premium Times reports that the Nobel laureate made his position on the bill known in a statement on Thursday, August 27.

Soyinka warned that if the bill is passed into law, it would hand the Nigerian president “absolute control over the nation’s entire water resources, both over and underground.

Soyinka warns Buhari administration against passage of water resources bill

He said that the bill had been earlier dropped about two years ago due to public outrage was now being reintroduced by the “failed government” with the consent of the National Assembly.

Premium Times notes that the bill which failed to get a concurrent passage by the eighth National Assembly has passed second reading in the House of Representatives.

gathers that civil society groups, including the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical, have also frowned at several provisions in the bill which would breach Nigerians the right to water. of such provisions is in Section 98 of the bill which states that “the use of water shall be subject to licencing provisions.