The presidency Ecological Project office says it is looking forward to embarking on more shoreline protection and reclamation works in communities being threatened by erosion and flooding in Bayelsa state.
The Permanent Secretary, Shehu Ibrahim gave the assurance during an on-the-spot assessment of ongoing shoreline protection and reclamation projects in some communities in the Niger Delta state.
Bayelsa, an oil-producing state is bedeviled by not just environmental degradation occasioned by decades of oil exploration and exploitation but also erosion challenges.
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The team from the Presidency ecological project office is in Bayelsa to evaluate some of the ongoing ecological projects to mitigate the menace of erosion in Bayelsa communities.
Their first port of call is Emadike where shoreline protection and reclamation work is ongoing.
The natives are grateful to the federal government for finding their community worthy of such a legacy project which has brought succor to them.
The assessment of the Tombia/Agudama 800 meters shoreline protection work is next on the itinerary as work is being intensified to beat the rainy season.
But the team is not so pleased with the contractors on the level of work done.
Like Emadike and Tombia communities, the same gesture will be extended to several communities that are barely surviving the decades of the environmental monster of erosion.
(Editor: Ena Agbanoma)
