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On Sunday, people of Oku Iboku community in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State were asked not to be afraid of siting of a nuclear plant in the area as the Federal Government would not do anything to the detriment of the people.

According to IgbereTV reports, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, in an interview with IgbereTV correspondents in Uyo, asked the people of Oku Iboku not to resort to violence in opposing the siting of the plant in their community, saying the Federal Government would not do anything to the detriment of the people.

He said the result of the environmental impact assessment of the project would determine if the federal government would go ahead to establish the plant in the area.

His words:

“I had engaged in a meeting with the former Director-General of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency in my house on the safety of this project, and I had told him that there are other alternative sources of energy that are safer. We did not complete the discussion until his tenure expired and he left, and another person was appointed."

“Where we are now is where they are doing an environmental impact analysis and the discussion we had with the former Director-General was that they have to do an environmental impact analysis and a lot of people in the whole of that area will have to be evacuated in case of an accident. “And I drew his attention to Chernobyl and the number of nuclear accidents we were having in the world at that time, and I also drew his attention to the fact that around Chile, nuclear plants accident had sunk almost a whole clan.

“We have to find out what the people really want and the effects of it and if there is no other alternative to doing it. “People should be calm and just make their submissions. There shouldn’t be any violence about it.

The Federal Government will take a decision based on the report of the assessment.”

http://igberetvnews.com/1216372/fg-asks-akwa-ibom-afraid-nuclear-plant/

hmm

Avengers.....

Never believe the promises of the federal government

nwekeugochukwu:
On Sunday, people of Oku Iboku community in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State were asked not to be afraid of siting of a nuclear plant in the area as the Federal Government would not do anything to the detriment of the people.
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This was the same government that killed Ken Saro wiwa, polluted your lands and razed odi. Don't trust them. SS has oil and very little land. The South is also more densely populated. This nuclear plant should go to the North. Somewhere in katsina, kebbi or sokoto

Buhari has been taking everything to North, please let him kindly take this Nuclear power plant to the North.

Why is he bringing this to Akwa Ibom? Ordinary presidential jets is having issues sticking to it's maintenance schedule not to talk of a nuclear plant.

Please take the nuclear plant to Dauras, as everything is been taken there.

It would be safer if the nuclear plant is built on an island. There are many uninhabited islands off the shores of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states.

JonDon12:


This was the same government that killed Ken Saro wiwa, polluted your lands and razed odi. Don't trust them. SS has oil and very little land. The South is also more densely populated. This nuclear plant should go to the North. Somewhere in katsina, kebbi or sokoto

or Daura

South south extinction loading....

why not Daura

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itsme01:
why not Daura

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They will build refineries, military training centers, railways and other vital institutions outside the Niger delta, but the only thing we deserve is RUGA and nuclear power plant, things that will actually kill us .

The earlier we take the this division thing serious, the better for us, Nigeria isn't working.

One Naijeria

The FG is definitely mad, they would put refineries and other important and useful institutions in the north. But once it comes to RUGA and nuclear power plant that are very dangerous and could destroy a lot of lives, they would now niger delta exist.