Critics of the Water Bill are ill-informed - Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government on Tuesday defended the National Water Resources Bill 2020, saying it was being opposed by people who had access to the media and that it would go ahead and ensure the passage of bill because it would be for the good of the country.

Following the passing of the bill, Prominent Nigerians and groups including Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka,  the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere had kicked against the reintroduction of the bill, saying it was a plot by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to seize people’s water resources for  Fulani herdsmen. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at a press conference he addressed with the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, in Abuja, said the critics of the bill were ill-informed because they had not read it.

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