Mahmood Adegbite, the Permanent Secretary in the Office of Drainage Services for the Lagos State Government, has stated that anyone drilling boreholes in the Lekki area is likely to be consuming contaminated water.

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite said: ‘’Yesterday it rained heavily which is unusual because this is supposed to be August break. However, we started having it because of a lot of complex issues.

"In terms of flooding, despite the fact that we have committed so much, however, we still need a lot to do in that space. Presently also, on waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘Shit water’

"However, if we are able to treat all the wastewater within this axis ,which we have plans for, we should be able to also eradicate any form of disease that might result as result of non-treatment of our waste''