{"id":59466,"date":"2018-11-08T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59466"},"modified":"2018-11-08T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:21:01","slug":"nigeria-has-gone-10-steps-backward-senator-abaribe-decries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59466","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria has gone 10 steps backward – Senator Abaribe decries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing the Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State on Wednesday, said Nigeria has taken one step forward and 10 steps backward.<\/p>\n

The Senator stated this during Wednesday plenary while lamenting about the critical state of pipe-borne water in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is only in Abuja that one can find pipe-borne water. It\u2019s a disgrace to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gone one step forward and 10 steps back. We should be providing pipe-born water to every household in Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Consequently, the Senate directed the committee on water supply to carry out a holistic investigation into the declining state of water supply in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Senate President Bukola Saraki said the committee should take the work with the importance it deserves and quickly carry out investigations to particularly block the leakages in the area of corruption.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThis is of great concern to us. As a country, it is very embarrassing if our decline has gone down to 7% from 32%.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we all know, as a country, there must be adequate water supply for all our operations.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing the Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State on Wednesday, said Nigeria has taken one step forward and 10 steps backward. The Senator stated this during Wednesday plenary while lamenting about the critical state of pipe-borne water in the country. \u201cIt is only in Abuja that one can find pipe-borne water. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7543],"class_list":["post-59466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-eyinnaya-abaribe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}