Yenagoa—THE dumbfounding demand for sand for construction work and land filling in the predominantly riverine Bayelsa State is threatening the existence of communities, along the rivers, creeks and rivulets, across the state due to the jumbled quarrying for sand. Niger Delta Voice investigations revealed that prior to the invasion of the rivers and creeks by the sand merchants with their hi-tech foreign built dredgers and locally fabricated dredgers, many of the communities were troubled by marine erosion.
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