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Imoke Halts Proposed Federal Housing Project
The Cross River? Government last Wednesday ordered the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development to stop work at the site of?a proposed federal housing scheme.
Who gave the order in Calabar, Governor Liyel Imoke aid the “stop work order” was on grounds of environmental impacts violations.
The housing scheme is located in the mangrove forest of Calabar Municipality.
Imoke, who was represented by his Deputy, Mr Efiok Cobham, during an on unscheduled inspection visit to the site along the Atimbo Swamp, said that the violations should be remedied.
“Henceforth no further development by any agency or individual should go on in Atimbo axis till further notice,” Imoke warned.
He alleged that the federal authorities had gone ahead to execute the housing project without an approval from appropriate state agencies and cited adverse?environmental effects on the host community as part of his decisions to stop work at the site.
The governor said that the State Government would not fold its arms and watch anybody expose?citizenry to “untold hazards or?distorting?the ecosystem occasioned by the depletion of the swam.”
He said that if the federal authorities continued the project, the community would be exposed to erosion and aggravated flooding to which the area was?already prone to.
The commissioner for Environment, Mr Sandy Onor,?said that the project would negatively impact on the state which, he said was the 25
th bio-diversity hot spot in the world.
Onor said that the Cross River Government would ensure that its environmental and forestry policy and programmes meant to conserve and protect the environment were adhered to.
He said the state had made?progress in projecting its ecosystem, pointing out that it would do everything within its powers to ensure the tempo was sustained.
?‘The state stands to lose its status as the beneficiary of the UN?Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, which Cross River remains the only benefiting state in the country,” he said.
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