Post Edited: How Neglected Nigerian oil producing community got tap water first time in decades
A boy in Edonwick, Eastern Obolo, Akwa Ibom state, fetches water from the borehole donated by Mary Remarkable FoundationA 24-year-old Nigerian woman, Remarkable Mary, in August last year made a record achievement in her humanitarian work – she built a borehole water project for a neglected oil-producing community in Akwa Ibom, South-south Nigeria.
“Our community should be more than hundred years, this is the first time we are having this kind of experience,” the community chief, Edwin Nte, said of the water project when he spoke with PREMIUM TIMES Thursday. The local government is rich in oil and gas deposits, with multinationals like Mobil Producing Nigeria, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Amni International Petroleum Company Limited operating in the waters close by for decades.
At Edonwick community, men defecate along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while women go over to the shores of the tributaries of the Qua Iboe River where the mangrove there provides some cover. Ms Mary, after confirming the school’s location with a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, visited the community to see what help she could get for the school.“It would take about N5 million to build a school for Isotoyo community,” she told PREMIUM TIMES, last year. “We have N1 million, and we are still shopping for funders for the project.”
The people in the community settle for unclean water sources or travel a distance, across the waters, to buy their drinking water in sachets from other neighbouring communities. The people were served chilled wine and malt drink. They also drank bottled water, some of them for the first time.During the inauguration of the water project, Ms Mary spoke of her passion to lend a helping hand to people abandoned by society. She wondered why Eastern Obolo, with its status as an oil-producing community, could be so neglected and forgotten.
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