US lawmaker condemns World Bank’s role in Lagos water privatization
"Lagos Water Privatization: US lawmaker condemns World Bank’s role", 13 Apr 2016
A United States lawmaker [Gwen Moore] has raised concerns over the World Bank’s role in funding and promoting water privatization across the world...[I]n a letter to the World Bank President,...[Moore], stated that the Bank’s lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, had not adequately monitored the conflicts of interest created when it takes equity stake in water corporations...[Recently], dozens of women marched around Lagos protesting a purported plan by the state government to privatize the public water works...In 2014, a Nigerian environment advocacy group, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) launched a campaign ‘Our Water, Our Right,’ aimed at halting the Lagos State government’s planned privatization of water infrastructure...