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Group raises alarm over quacks in Kwara borehole drilling enterprise

 

By Mumini Abdulkareem

In its bid to curb quackery in borehole drilling in Kwara State, a
group, Ground Water Development Association of Kwara State (GDAK)
yesterday in Ilorin held a road walk to create awareness on the trend.
While decrying the rising cases of quackery in the operation of
borehole drilling in the state, GDAK said proliferation of quacks has
resulted in substandard projects that could threaten the wellbeing of
the people in the future.
Speaking with reporters during the event graced by large turnout of
members of the association, GDAK President, Engr John Gbenga, said the
association had discovered impersonators, who are not qualified to
execute drilling of boreholes.
He alleged that those who disguised as qualified drillers charged
their unsuspecting clients ridiculous amount and in turn deliver
substandard projects.
According to him, GDAK established in 2002 was registered with the
Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and has good partnership with the
Kwara State Ministries of Water Resources and Environment and
Forestry.
He exonerated members of GDAK from shoddy borehole projects in the
state and attributed such projects to handiwork of quacks.
“We have discovered that there are some riffraff among us, who are not
qualified to do our job but they have been parading themselves.
“They are impersonators, smearing the name of the association. Some of
them will go to clients, collect lesser money from them and the money
they collect cannot even execute the job. It is because they are not
qualified and they don’t know the protocols of taking drilling to get
to the level of good water for domestic use.
“That is why we believe the public should be aware of who and who are
qualified to drill borehole for them. We say enough is enough. Anybody
that the public wants to give a job to, must be a card carrier of the
association,” Gbenga said.
Also speaking, the GDAK state Protem Secretary, Afolabi Olayinka
Ayodele, said the road walk was embarked upon to sensitise the public
on the prevention of earth tremor, earthquake and landslide that may
arise from shoddy job of quacks.

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