The Ibadan Descendants’ Union (IDU), Dallas Forthworth Chapter, Texas, United States of America, will inaugurate 22 solar-powered boreholes across Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, today.
The inauguration of the boreholes, which were sunk under the association’s ‘Ibadan Community Water Project’, will be performed at a ceremony that will take place at Irefin Palace, Oloofa Compound, Oke-Ofa, Ibadan, by 10am.
The president of IDU, Dallas Forthworth, Mr Shola Bolomope, said the president-general of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Chief Ajeniyi Ajewole, would perform the inauguration of the projects while a former CCII president-general and grand patron of the Ibadan Descendants’ Union, USA Inc., Chief Bayo Oyero, would chair the occasion.
According to Bolomope, the Ajia Olubadan of Ibadanland, Chief Abiola Iyiola, who is also the national president of IDU-USA, is already in Ibadan leading other members of the union from the United States “to witness the historic event.”
He said: “As it has been for many years and still till this day, lack of good drinkable water has been one of the major problems facing our communities. And, rather than simply criticising government, we have decided to do something, make a difference, no matter how little.
“Our biggest joy now is knowing that many communities in Ibadanland will be transformed by this simple act of kindness by our people and that’s what matters.”
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