BREAKING: Another Water Project By Tinubu Government In Eleme Collapses Weeks After Commissioning
SaharaReporters learnt that the disaster has precipitated flooding in the encircling properties
One other HYPREP water tank has collapsed in Ebubu community, Eleme Native Government Place, upright weeks after an identical catastrophe in Gwara, Khana LGA of Rivers recount.
SaharaReporters learnt that the disaster has precipitated flooding in the encircling properties
The tank is constructed by the Hydrocarbon Air pollution Remediation Undertaking (HYPREP), and was commissioned not as a lot as 2 months ago by the President Bola Tinubu-led authorities.
Reacting to the enhance, an Ogoni rights activist, Fyneface Dumnamene, condemned the disaster, describing the incident as shameful: “One other hyprep water tank allegedly collapses in Ebubu community … what a disgrace,” Fyneface stated.
SaharaReporters had on November 5 reported that upright four days after its inauguration, the overhead water tank at the Gwara Water Undertaking in Khana Native Government Place of Rivers Negate collapsed.
The disaster had sparked outrage amongst residents and raised serious questions about venture execution below the Hydrocarbon Air pollution Remediation Undertaking (HYPREP).
The capability, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Ambiance alongside HYPREP as half of the continuing Ogoni tidy-up and community toughen programme, was designed to offer sustainable potable water to the individuals of Gwara community after decades of environmental air pollution and neglect.
Some eyewitnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated the building gave manner, sending the metal body and tank crashing to the bottom. No fatalities were reported as of press time.
They on the change hand, expressed disappointment and divulge over the usual of work delivered by the contractors.
They disaster that the crumple will likely be a signal of deeper infrastructural deficiencies within not too prolonged ago commissioned projects.
“This was alleged to bring relief to us after so a few years of suffering with out tidy water. Now peek at what has came about in not as a lot as one week,” a resident had lamented, urging authorities to habits an intensive probe.
That they had known as on the President Bola Tinubu-led authorities and HYPREP to present sure that paunchy accountability, evaluation the requirements utilized in the venture’s building, and straight mobilise efforts to rebuild the power.
