It, therefore, follows that the dredging contract already awarded by the Abdulsalami Abubakar regime is highly - premature and must be revisited and reviewed. The process of the EIA for the dredging of the River is still in progress. It must not be short-circuited or aborted because of a hurriedly awarded N10 billion contract. Any half- hearted or incomplete EIA exercise or poor implementation process may be disastrous to the environment on the long run. Let us not ever again cut our environmental nose to spite our face.
Any environmental damage exposes our present and future to hopelessness.
Despite the fact that the EIA Draft Report on the dredging exercise is quite detailed and is a fairly-good one, it has flaws, and weaknesses, and seriously neglects many sensitive aspects or areas of the threatened Nigerian environment. These weaknesses and lapses should be considered for remedy to ensure that the planned dredging exercise succeeds. People s participation in project activities is not as widely- detailed and publicised as it should be. Floods soil and gully erosion disasters that would be exacerbated within Anambra Basin in Kogi and Anambra State did not receive enough evaluation. The Draft Report briefly described the geology along the dredge path but geology implications are not fully - appreciated.