Group Condemns Dredging Of Bonny Creek In Rivers

A community-based organisation, the Bonny Improvement Association (BIA), has condemned the dredging and sand-mining activities on the Abalamabie/Inia-Shiri Creek in Bonny local government area of the Rivers State.
BIA, in s state issued in Port Harcourt yesterday and signed by Professor Sodienye Abere and Evangelist Godwin Jumbo, it’s national president and general secretary respectively, described this ongoing dredging and sand-mining  activities as ‘unregulated’.
The statement said the operations, which are being used to source sand for the reclamation of the proposed Bonny Vehicular Terminal (BVT) project site in the Bonny Island, pose an immediate threat to communities’ very fragi...