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crusty_bint

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  1. Red - Athletes Village

    Green - Parkland

    Yellow - treatment plant

    Blue - East End Regeneration route (major road project)

    Pink - M74 (major road project)

    athletes_village_plan.jpg

    As you can see, the sewage treatment plant has no bearing on the Athletes Village, nor will it be seen by anyone travelling by road or rail. Of course, spectators and athletes travelling by helicopter will most probably catch a glimpse.

  2. http://allafrica.com/stories/200710100366.html

    Nigeria: Sewage Burst Pervades Asokoro

    Asokoro, the high-brow district has been witnessing what a close observer described "as most heinous environmental pollution of recent times".

    A visit to the area by our correspondent shows that many sewage pipes have burst of recent, thereby exposing the residents of the area to health hazards.

    Particularly hit, our findings revealed, are those living within the end of ECOWAS secretariat by Yakubu Gowon street.

    Most of the residents LEADERSHIP spoke with decried the non-chalant attitude of Abuja Environmental Protection Board whose duty it is to maintain environmental cleanliness in the city.

    They said that despite various complaints to the environmental board on the burst sewage pipes, it has not done anything to arrest the situation.

    http://allafrica.com/stories/200710240324.html

    The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has warned residents in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to desist from dumping refuse in the sewage.

    In a statement from an official of the Liquid Waste Management Department of the board, Mr Kenneth Okafor, said that residents in FCT should desist from doing so to avoid blockage of the sewages.

    He stated that refuse and other solid waste dumped in the sewage is responsible for the problems of blocked sewages in the FCT.

    According to him, the engineering department of AEPB is trying to address the issue of blocked sewages in the capital territory.

    However, the residents of FCT had complained of blocked sewages which led to a terrible stench in and around the environment.

    http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/13/news/nigeria.php

    Abuja's big plans have little room for the poor

    Nigerian capital tries for world-class look by razing its slums

    But these days the deepest cleavage in Nigerian society yawns wider here than it does almost anywhere else — the chasm between the tiny, rich and powerful elite and the vast, impoverished majority of the nation's 130 million people.

    "They don't want to see the common man, the poor man," said Comrade Daniel, a motorcycle-taxi driver, standing in the rubble of his neighborhood. He lost first his home and then his livelihood to a recent campaign to rid this stately capital of the blemishes of poverty. "They only care for themselves," he said.

    Daniel and others who live on the unruly edge of this tidy city in the mossy hills of central Nigeria say that Abuja has declared war on its poorest citizens.

    In the interest of cultivating an image of a world-class city, comparable to London, Paris, New York or Hong Kong, the government has been razing unauthorized and unsightly slums, clearing out street hawkers and banishing popular and cheap motorcycle taxis, all in the name of spiffing up the city.

    Abuja is a planned city, originally designed by a group of American firms in the 1970s. It was meant to present an orderly gloss on Nigeria's vibrant but chaotic reputation. No place represents that image more fully than Lagos, the former capital, with its legendary go- slows — or traffic jams — jumbles of shacks next to office towers, and streets overflowing with garbage and sewage.

    Abuja, by contrast, was to have none of those problems. The master plan would ensure that Abuja would be a tranquil oasis in the center of a cacophonous, polyglot nation.

    I could go on.

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