Environmental Damage: Imo community urges Uzodinma to end illegal dredging in Iriamogu

Indigenes and residents of Iriamogu Village successful Dindi-Ihiagwa Autonomous Community, Owerri West LGA, Imo State, person appealed to the State Governor, Hope Uzodinma to urgently intervene successful what they described arsenic the devastating biology interaction of dredging activities on the Otammiri River waterfront.

The residents besides expressed interest that the alleged degradation could endanger lives, destruct farmlands and infrastructure, and perchance airs a menace to energy infrastructure located wrong the Community.

Addressing Journalists and members of a Civil Society Organization, CSO, the President-General of Iriamogu Development Union, Mr Joseph Oforegbu, expressed interest implicit the activities of dredging operators successful the area, describing the reported level of biology degradation arsenic unacceptable.

Oforegbu asserted that if the dredging enactment is not enactment to an end, the assemblage has nary different enactment than to embark connected a superior protestation against it.

He said that elders of the assemblage person been restraining their youths from frontal confrontation with the dredgers, waiting connected the authorities to instrumentality due enactment connected the matter.

The President General, appealed to the authorities authorities to intervene promptly, stressing that the assemblage enactment mightiness find it progressively hard to incorporate the vexation among...