In this special report, SAMSON FOLARIN looks at how the failure of governance and corporate irresponsibility of the Nige

during this special report, SAMSON FOLARIN looks at how the failure of governance and company irresponsibility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation are destroying the livelihood and health of a community in Ejigbo, Lagos State.

On an evening time recently, Alhaji Wahab Olorunfunmi was having a meal in his house on Sanusi Street, Eijigbo, on the outskirts of Lagos state.

The meal on his table looked typical, but the marginally brownish water he had in his cup was a deadly brew of water and petrol.

Olorunfunmi wasn’t on a martyr operation.

Ejigbo, where he has lived all his life as an indigene, is additionally home to at least one of the busiest satellite depots of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

.The depot gives petroleum products to South Western states in Nigeria powering businesses, also keeping vehicles on the road, and making the economy go smoothly, and social activities.

It is under the System 2B Pipeline Network, which accounts for 60 percent of fuel supply and distribution within the country.

But in Ejigbo, the depot is that the source of much agony and distress.

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Leaky petroleum pipes are contaminating wells and boreholes, two vital sources of beverage for Ejigbo’s huge population of youngsters, adults, and therefore the aged. quite 50,000 people are said to be living during this community.

A 74-years-old man named Olorunfunmi, says he takes ‘petrol water’ with every single meal.

According to him, his tenants and youngsters travel far in search of potable water, but he has resigned to fate.

“Someone advised me to prevent bothering myself due to my adulthood. So, olorunfunmi said; "I just boil the water and drink it". My wife and youngsters buy water, but I drink from the borehole. albeit it'll affect my health, how long do I even have to measure again?”  said olorunfunmi, throwing his own hands up in defeat.

Down the road is that the home of Mutiat Agbabiaka, the wife of a landlord, whose family relied on a borehole for sustenance.

The borehole was one of the water sources left untouched by the NNPC leaking pipes. During the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the Agbabiakas sold the water to get funds.