A youngster recognized as Salim tragically drowned on Sunday whereas trying to fetch water from a reservoir on the Sokoto State Water Therapy Plant, amid a worsening water shortage disaster within the State.
Eyewitnesses stated the younger man slipped and fell into the tank and struggled earlier than drowning.
The incident has sparked outrage amongst residents who’ve endured over a month of acute water shortages.
Locals say the tragedy underscores the severity of the disaster, with kids and adults seen each day roaming town with buckets and jerry cans seeking water for fundamental wants.
Indignant residents accused the Sokoto State Water Board of negligence, saying the company didn’t implement promised options to the extended water disaster.
“The scenario is insufferable. Every single day we get up to seek for water, and now a younger life has been misplaced. What else has to occur earlier than one thing is completed?” a resident lamented.
The mounting rigidity prompted officers of the Water Board to flee the realm as irate residents demanded solutions. Law enforcement officials had been later deployed to revive order.
Regardless of repeated assurances from the Water Board, water provide stays erratic, and residents are calling for pressing authorities intervention to avert additional tragedies.
They’re demanding each instant and long-term options to handle the disaster, restore public confidence, and forestall future lack of life.
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