The House of Representatives is planning to investigate the failure of the performance of the N6.5 billion shoreline protection contract awarded by the Niger
Delta Development Commission , the House called the National Emergency Management Agency to urgently provide temporary relief materials to cushion the immediate impact of the ravaging sea incursion on the latest victims in Ayetoro community in llaje Local Government Area of Ondo state.
He said the devastating sea incursions and ocean surges have been the albatross of the Ayetoro community for over two decades destroying properties and displacement of indigenes, thus disrupting the oil-exploration activities owing to varied reactions by indigenes of the area. He said further that the contract was revoked in 2009 for alleged lack of capacity and re-awarded to Dredging Atlantic Limited at an undisclosed cost and sixteen years after the contract was first awarded, there is nothing to show any intervention by the government.
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