 The state government has continued with the replacement and extension of pipelines in areas without water across the metropolis and its outskirts. Governor Peter Rimbaud was on inspection tour of some ongoing water supply extension projects in some parts of the capital city yesterday charged residents to take ownership of the water facilities and protect them against sabotage and vandalism, while in those deliberately vandalising state assets, leading to frequent leakage of water and a huge cost to the government to desist from the illegal act of face severe consequences. People have been going around doing all sorts of things, including cutting pipelines, vandalising water collection points, just stealing the help and in some instances breaking the pipes completely. The two things that we have thought about doing as a government one is to provide adequate security in some of these locations. But more important is for communities to take ownership of the infrastructure being brought to their communities. These are people that have not had water over a decade. So we brought water to them, put those points as first line intervention, depending when the reticulation gets into their homes. So we also expect in working with the chairman, the councillors, some of the community leaders, the PG leaders to be able to now say to them, government is doing what they are promised now and to ensure the sustainability of this infrastructure. You have to be committed in that process. And that's the conversation we had with them earlier and there was commitment. But you do know in this sense they are going to be outliers, they're going to be instances where people are going to try to push an agenda that's contrary. So that's what you're seeing. But when you look at the quantum of vandalism going on, it's not the way it would have been if it hadn't been for the interventions we have put in place at the start of this strategy. So this is something that we're working very actively. His Excellency is very, very intentional about the whole process of providing security, but it has to be a collective effort. It can be an effort of something that is being done out of the lion building. Everybody has to be involved in safeguarding this and changing the narrative around Inugu.