The Cost of Cheap Energy: Dangote’s Industrial Push for Coal Leaves Benue’s Rivers Poisoned. Now, Communities are in Health Peril
Eighteen Indigenous communities including Otukpo, the traditional home of the Idoma ethnic group in Benue State are in danger as a result of a coal mining operation by Dangote Coal Mines Ltd, a subsidiary of Dangote Group. SouthernHerald’s THEOPHILUS ADEDOKUN reveals how deadly contaminants such as Lead, Arsenic, Mercury and Cadmium from Dangote Coal Mine sites seep into the major water…