The Deputy Director, Maritime Services in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Mrs Chinwe Ezenwa, has said the dredging of lower River Niger will not harm coastal communities.<\/p>\n
Ezenwa told Newsmen at Edjeba in Delta State that the impact assessment conducted showed that there would be no harm to such communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have got certification from the Ministry of Environment. We are going to mitigate the negative impact, \u201cshe said.<\/p>\n
Ezenwa also gave an insight into the dredging specifications, saying, \u201cit is 2.5 metres deep and 60 metres wide just to create a highway inside the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sand will be used to sand-fill some villages; some farmlands will be relocated and people are not going to feel the impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome communities will not even know that their river is dredged. So what is the negative impact? We have a dumpsite where we put all our spoils.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the barges. We will now go inland. It is all about cabotage.<\/p>\n
How do you promote inland coastal shipping trade without dredging?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not possible. So it is just to promote trade,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The project which is expected to cost the Federal Government about N36 billion, will cover 572 kilometres and traverse 15 communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Deputy Director, Maritime Services in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Mrs Chinwe Ezenwa, has said the dredging of lower River Niger will not harm coastal communities. Ezenwa told Newsmen at Edjeba in Delta State that the impact assessment conducted showed that there would be no harm to such communities. \u201cWe have got certification from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}