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Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by CyrexSnr(m): 5:58am On May 20, 2016 |
The alarm was raised on Thursday, May 19, at a meeting in
which the need to pay more attention to the development
was raised.
Vanguard reports that the Auditor General of the Federation
(AGF), Mr Samuel Tyonongo Ukura, made the disclosure
during a meeting with the Edo state Auditor-General and
members of the Edo state public accounts committee in his
office in Abuja.
Ukura, however, assured that Nigeria was in the process of
conducting an environmental audit of the River Niger to
determine its level of dryness.
Meanwhile, AGoF has called on the National Assembly to
pass the Audit Bill into law. He said there were certain
international ratings that the country cannot attain without
passing an audit law.
Ukura explained that the initial investigation of the River
Niger showed that the decline of the river’s flow was mainly
due to climate change, industrial waste and problems
caused by population growth.
River Niger has a total length of about 4100 kilometres and
is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and the
Congo-Zaire rivers and spreads through ten countries.
It is estimated that about 110 million people live in the
river’s basin. Ukura said the audit will be done under the
African Supreme Audit Institute (AFROSAI), with Mali, Niger,
Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Algeria, Chad and Cote
I’voire taking centre stage as they are directly affected.
He said it was necessary for government to address the issue
so as to avoid a repeat of the negative impact of the drying
up of Lake Chad. “Within a few decades, River Niger will
completely disappear.
There are certain things in the preliminary investigation we
discovered that is happening. People have been building
dams without authorisation along the river.
“And the law establishing the River Niger Basin Commission
states that before you do any serious activity along the
River Niger, you have to tell other countries.”
But these activities are taking place without authorisation.
“Also the river is being misused. There are certain activities
that will cause the river to dry up, like dumping waste.
“People dump certain things like toxin waste and it destroys
our aquatic system. So we will look at these things to see
what can be done to stop its drying,” he said.
He said that the countries plan to hold a meeting to this
effect in September, here in Nigeria. On the call on the
National Assembly to pass the Audit Bill into law, Mr Ukura
said there were certain international ratings that the country
cannot attain without passing an audit law.
According to him, “The audit law was created in 1956 when
the main sources of revenue was from the sale of cocoa,
soyabeans, groundnut, timber, palm oil and the rest. So this
needs to be looked at.
“Also, the audit law when passed will give the office of the
Auditor-General more power and some hidden forces do
not want this .
“This is because the new law will give the office the power to
sanction and disallow certain expenditure and some people
do not want that,” he said.
In his remarks, the Auditor-General, Edo state, Mr Bernard
Aigbe said that the he and members of his office were there
to see how to bridge gaps between the two offices.
Aigbe noted that the office of the Auditor-General of the
Federation had introduced certain strategies at federal level
to ensure efficient use of government resources which he
planned to introduce in Edo state.
Their focus he said was on the Treasury and Performance
Audit which tries to monitor and evaluate government
expenditure on capital projects to ensure completion. Source:- http://naijacamp.ga/forum2_theme_112313790.xhtml?tema=136 |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by Nusaf: 6:04am On May 20, 2016 |
@op In this era of change, u need to specify the type of change u are referring to. This is a case of environmental and climatic change. |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by Nobody: 8:45am On May 20, 2016 |
Photos or I dont believe - The audit is not necessary because "people have been building dams without authorisation along the river." You see what PDP has caused us in the last 16 years plus. River Niger is finished! - “People dump certain things like toxin waste and it destroys our aquatic system. So we will look at these things to see what can be done to stop its drying." Imagine Peter Obi commissioning a beer factory at the foot of River Niger, Onitsha Head Bridge. The state government is also responsible for the decay. - Ministry of Environment at the Federal and State levels should investigate this development and all parties should be sanctioned accordingly. - Anyway, we have to stop the proposed 2nd Niger bridge because there would be land soon. - We can transfer the money to building more military barracks and formations in the East to strengthen security presence in the region. Amazing statement, if true. Where is lalasticlala sef ![]() |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by chriskosherbal(m): 8:49am On May 20, 2016 |
I can see |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by Nobody: 8:49am On May 20, 2016 |
I hope this is not another excuse to stop resumption of work at Second River Niger Bridge...I don't trust this people. They stop initial work after bogus excuse of non settlement of land owners in the community and bogus safety reasons. Safety indeed...when did you people start caring about Igbos? Lol |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by Shukuakukobambi: 8:56am On May 20, 2016 |
Clinton9000: Even GEJ the 'Azikiwe' didn't care. I wonder why? ![]() |
Re: Deadly Change: Read What Is Happening To The River Niger by realjoker(m): 10:10am On May 20, 2016 |
Clinton9000:I pity your generation. you are an unrepentant tribal jingoist, I wonder how you go to bed at night with this your warp way of reasoning. |
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