Streams people group excoriates digging exercises in P-Harcourt

Individuals of Amadi-Ama people group in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State have approached the state government to stop the digging exercises at Eastern Bye-pass pivot of Port Harcourt, saying it was at that point constituting a noteworthy risk to their condition.

In a letter to the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, the group, under the aegis of Amadi-Ama Progressive Association, said that the digging at the Eastern Bye-go in Port Harcourt could incite shared emergency if not ceased.

A letter by Chairman of the body, Mr Ishmael Iderifamama and Secretary/Spokesman, Chienaboso Koko, charged that the contractual worker taking care of the venture did not do an ecological effect appraisal, EIA, to decide the unfriendly impacts of the venture on nature.

"We write to advise you of a conceivable breakdown of lawfulness which may snowball into a collective emergency if the circumstance is not captured at this stage. "Our people group, Amadi-Ama, is one that slants descending the Amadi river with no great streets and waste frameworks and experiences intense erossion storm waters flooding structures, arrive misfortune as land retreats landwards from the shorelines with caveins.

"Consequently, we require your convenient mediation to stop the temporary worker who has no allow, nor the fundamental essential to complete this digging movement," they said. going on now at the Eastern Bye pass pivot of Port Harcourt to stop forthwith," they said.