Guinness commissions water project in community
Guinness Water of Life project was commissioned in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Wednesday, August 25.
The commissioning
ceremony was attended by members of Odigbo community, neighbouring
towns, and villages as well as traditional rulers from these towns.
Governor of Ondo
State, Olusegun Mimiko, represented by the Commissioner for Adult
Education and Vocational Studies, Florence Kehinde Momoh, commended
Guinness Nigeria for the gesture. While calling on other corporate
organisations to emulate Guinness Nigeria, the commissioner, who hails
from Odigbo, described the projects as a good example of public-private
sector collaboration in the development of the rural communities of the
state.
The Lisa of Odigbo,
Godwin Akindileni, said “It is like magic. Guinness knew what was
bothering us and responded to the needs of the people in this area. The
Odigbo community is happy over this project. We hear banks declaring
billions as profits all over the whole place without touching people’s
lives in any way, Before now, you could not count up to 10 boreholes in
the town, there was serious stress for people whenever they seek to get
potable water, but with this project, Guinness has done a great thing
for this town and it is marvellous in our eyes.”
Unveiling the
project, the representative of the Managing Director, Guinness Nigeria,
Rory McMillan said “Providing potable water to communities in Nigeria
is an integral part of our corporate citizenship agenda.”
The Odigbo project
is made up of boreholes, overhead storage tank, a water treatment
machine, a distribution network and a standby power generating set.
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