Inside Akwa Ibom communities where sand excavation degrades environment
Inside Akwa Ibom communities where sand excavation degrades environment Illegal sand mining activities in Akwa Ibom State threatens its environmental sustainability. 5 min read In 2015, when a group of armed cultists stormed the family farmland of Asi Emmanson to excavate sand, she could not bear the pain of seeing her only means of livelihood and family heritage in ruins. Seventy-nine years at the time, she developed high blood pressure and died of a heart attack. She was a promising smallholder farmer who grew palm plants on the farmland she inherited from her late husband, ...
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