Calabar erosion: Nigerian govt moves to protect NNPC jetty, Naval assets from ecological disaster

The Federal Government has moved to urgently tackle the increasing threats to cardinal strategical nationalist assets, including the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Victory installation, and an Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited jetty supporting the nation’s vigor infrastructure, pursuing an ecological exigency successful Calabar, Cross River State.

The Federal Government’s Ecological Project Permanent Secretary, Dr Aishetu Mohammed, made this disclosure successful a connection at the weekend.

The involution follows the nonaccomplishment of the Channel 2 underground drainage strategy on Anansa Road successful Calabar, which triggered extended biology destruction, infrastructure damage, disruption of economical activities and nonaccomplishment of life.

Mohammed said the resultant ecological situation posed wider nationalist information and economical concerns, which she said were beyond a regular drainage problem.

Speaking portion receiving a Cross River State authorities delegation led by the Commissioner for Environment, Bassey Offiong Mensah, Mohammed said, “The involution volition statesman with a associated method appraisal to find the causes of the situation and place sustainable remedial measures. We bash not travel into a authorities without concern with the authorities and the people.

“We bash not instrumentality civilization for granted. We perceive to the radical and tailor our interventions acco...