Abuja Water Summit Rejects Privatisation Projects. Unions, civil society organisations and allies convened a Water Summit in Abuja on 29-30 January to call a halt to the water privatisation plans being foisted on the government of Nigeria and state governments by the World Bank, by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation and other groups ideologically committed to privatisation and market control. The meeting called on Nigeria’s president and the governor of the state of Lagos to immediately halt all negotiations on privatisation.