Water Is Coming Soon; Enugu Gov. Mbah Warns Against Unauthorized Boreholes Following a Drilling Fire Incident

A new development has seen the Enugu State Government of Governor Peter Mbah warn against drilling boreholes without the authorization of the State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change as well as other relevant government agencies, Water Is Coming Soon; Enugu Gov. Mbah Warns Against Unauthorized Boreholes Following a Drilling Fire Incident

The warning came as personnel of the state fire service on Sunday, successfully put out a fire that started during a borehole drilling activity at the Federal Housing Estate in Ugwogo Nike, in the Enugu East Local Government Area of the state.

While on an interview with Newsmen shortly after an inspection tour of the site where the incident occurred at Nike on Sunday, the Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Prof. Sam Ugwu, warned that the government would no longer tolerate further indiscriminate drilling of boreholes in the state.

Also It was gathered that the gas flare occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, and lasted till the early hours of Sunday. It forced residents to flee the area.

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However in his words during the on-site inspection, Ugwu, who was accompanied by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr Kingsley Nnaji, thanked the firemen led by the Chief Fire Officer, Mr Okwudiri Ohaa, for their prompt intervention.

He stated, “As was rightly pointed out, we had this experience around the Caritas University last year and this is the second incident.

“The government is going to investigate the incident further because already, we have environmental laws. They were supposed to have applied to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. The Ministry would come here to do an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and then there would be a letter of commencement, which would be issued by the Ministry.

“So, I advise anybody going into the ground to do the proper thing to avoid this kind of experience we now have here. But for the prompt intervention of the State Fire Service, this could have caused the loss of lives and houses around this place.

“But these gas eruptions have also further confirmed Governor Peter Mbah’s statement that we have both solid and liquid mineral resources in abundance in Enugu State, which his administration is very much interested in harnessing for the good of the people of Enugu and the nation at large. Water Is Coming Soon

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