The World Bank has given the Edo state government a N5.7billion loan facility to tackle the erosion problem at Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of the State.
This was revealed on Friday in a press statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Edo state governor, Peter Okhiria.
The governor of the state, Adams Oshiomole, said the decision to look to the World Bank was made after the Federal Government refused to release the ecological funds to tackle erosion in the state that has affected many.

During the commissioning of the Auchi-Jattu-Afashio-Ikabigbo-Ojio road on Thursday, Mr. Oshiomole said that many petitions had been written to the Federal Government to intervene in the erosion problems.
He went further to say that that the Otar of Auchi also led a protest march to that effect.,
“Erosion has been a problem that has been threatening the existence of Auchi as a community. Not only has erosion destroyed the farmlands, erosion has also destroyed a number of roads and even killed a number of our people.
“There was an attempt to address the erosion problem but whereas the people of Auchi wanted a solution, somebody wanted to monetize the problem. They gave the job to a contractor who knows next to nothing and he brought a tractor which he himself could not reclaim from the valleys of the erosion.
“I hold the view that government should not adapt to different specifications in construction of projects whether these are roads or schools or hospitals, government must ensure that the same specifications that prevail in projects located in state capitals are used in projects in local government areas. For me the forgotten majority of men and women do not live in the state capital

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GEJ pulled a crowd even 3 months ago in Edo state capital, Benin as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the city to commission the Benin-Ofosu dual carriage road, a portion of the Benin-Ore Expressway.

GEJ Edo State this week see crowd!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5nihwKD7Ag

The paid crowd refuse to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rgZq0xbng

Town Hall Meeting was flop only paid agents clapped


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXan5P2xd04

Senseless thread from a deranged fellow!

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Saw you jumping in the crowd by yourself

Violence and APC

In a sign that trouble was still ahead, some days after the attacks, a bomb went off in the state capital, ramping up the tension. The bombed house belongs to a former state government official, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who had defected to the PDP.

WITH the 2015 general election approaching, it is worrying that political violence is becoming the order of the day in some states. Joining the ignoble club, a fist-fight a few weeks ago in the Edo State House of Assembly has metamorphosed into an orgy of brutality. Things went awry last June when some lawmakers defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party, but the past two weeks have witnessed an escalation in violent skirmishes.

Political thugs led by Hon member of the Edo State House of Assembly Phillips Shiabu (APC) yesterday attacked a fellow member of the Edo State House of Assembly Hon. Rasak Momoh(PDP) at his residence within the legislators quarters in Benin, the Edo State capital. Hon. Rasak was said to have been beaten unconscious and is now lying critically ill at University of Benin Teaching Hospital. More Pics after the cut

It will be recalled that Hon Rasak in the past has alleged that his signature was forged by the APC faction of EDHA members during the key moment of the fracas that erupted at the House of Assembly some months ago.