Documents from the World Bank archive reveal a $67 million loan approved in 1981 for rehabilitating the Onitsha water supply scheme. Despite funding, the project faced challenges and ultimately failed to deliver reliable public water access to the city's residents.
Documents from the World Bank ’s archive show that the Bank approved a $67.0 million loan for Nigeria in 1981 for the rehabilitation of the 1960 water supply scheme in Onitsha , which suffered significant deterioration during the Nigeria n Civil War and was not meeting the needs of residents of Onitsha . The total water scheme project was estimated at N66.3 million . The $67 million World Bank loan, at that time, was to cover the foreign currency component of the project which was 55% of total cost.
In 1979, before the commencement of the rehabilitation of the Onitsha Water Scheme project, the World Bank had approved the sum of $415,000 for the feasibility and engineering studies of the Greater Onitsha Water Scheme. During the same period, a consortium of Nigerian – German consultants carried out engineering designs for the master plan for sewerage, storm water and solid waste disposal schemes for Onitsha.
There have been efforts to rehabilitate these water schemes in the past. In November 2013, the state government announced that a 1.8-billion-naira contract to rehabilitate the Onitsha Water Scheme would be completed in 2014 by Peterson Candy International of South Africa. But the scale of deterioration of this water scheme was a big impediment to the project taking off.
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