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A cargo vas owned by Quest Shipping Ltd., carrying petroleum products, destroyed multi-billion naira worthy of groynes on the Lagos coastline astatine the Maiyegun Waterfront Scheme adjacent Eko Atlantic City.
The mishap occurred connected the nighttime of July 29, 2024, aft the vas offloaded petroleum products astatine the Apapa port. However, owed to a monolithic wave, the anchor broke, and the undercurrent moved the vessel implicit 10 nautical miles (18.52 km), causing important harm to the groynes designed to forestall coastal erosion.
Groynes, made of rocks oregon concrete, are built perpendicular to the shoreline to trap soil and stabilise the beach. The Guardian reports that a twelvemonth ago, constructing a kilometre of groyne outgo astir N12 billion.
Fidelis Ilok, the vessel’s Technical Superintendent, stated that the unit was dormant erstwhile the anchor broke, and the waves pushed the vas into the groynes. He explained that it was full disorder until the groynes stopped the vessel.
Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Hon. Yacoob Ekundayo Alebiosu, confirmed the incident.
Lamenting the N7 cardinal damage, Alebiosu said that further investigations are ongoing to find the origin of the accident, stressing the state’s efforts to support coastline communities from erosion.
Alebiosu stressed that the authorities would not tolerate harm to its infrastructure owed to negligence.
“Some communities are inactive pleading for groynes to prevention them from erosion. Last year, constructing a kilometre of groyne outgo N12 billion. We cannot let our already built groynes to beryllium destroyed,” Alebiosu said.
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