THE challenge of halting the erosion of our coastlines has moved from a mere media campaign to a group protesting the neglect to government.
A resolution is still pending.
Erosion threats the coastal areas are facing are treated with the same disinterest as erosion that that have left gullies in many villages in the South East. Coast erosion has the additional challenge of the management of wrecked and abandoned vessels.
Lekki seems to be the focus of the protest, but the problem is more wide spread.
Silence from other quarters could be partially from ignorance or occupation with the daily travails of survival.
Lagos State Government once responded in two days to a protest from the indigenes of Lekki, calling for removal of abandoned ships and saving the coastal communities and businesses in that axis from the imminent invasion of the Atlantic Ocean.
An indigene of Lekki led some government officials to inspect the affected area. He pledged the state government would intervene though the matter was the responsibility of the Federal Government….
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