Thousands of aggrieved residents have staged a peaceful protest in Ayetoro community in the oil-rich Ilaje Local Council of Ondo State, alleging government’s neglect, following an ocean surge that rendered over 5,000 people homeless and destroyed schools, health centres and other critical structures.
Led by their traditional ruler, the Ogeleyinbo of Ayetoro , Oba Oluwambe Ojagbohunmi , the women, youths, children, and the aged bemoaned their alleged abandonment by the Ondo and federal governments.
The initiatives, they said, included a shoreline project contract worth billions, allegedly awarded to one Gallet Nigeria Limited to protect the community from the devastating surges in 2003, and an allocation of N6.5 billion to the Niger Delta Development Commission for the construction of a shoreline protective wall in 2006.
The protesters called on President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly and Ondo State government to save their community from extinction by building embankments to halt the surges. Prolonged foreign exchange shortages, uncertainty, insecurity and other macroeconomic woes have continued to increase foreigners’ apathy for stocks, as foreign transactions accounted for a paltry 11 per cent of transactions in the country’s equities market in 2023, against local patronage of 89 per cent.
Ekiti State Government has urged the electricity distribution company operating in the state, Benin Electricity Distribution Company , to ensure that all the electricity consumers are metered to put an end to estimated billing across the state. The Federal Government has commissioned a new 5.2 million standard cubic feet per day Compressed Natural Gas plant in Lagos to mitigate the impact of the fuel subsidy removal and a more sustainable energy future for the nation.
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