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The quarry activities are getting closer to residences
By Anthony Maliki
Residents of parts of Bmuko in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, are worried about the unwholesome activities of a quarry in the area that is affecting their buildings.
The residents said the continued use of dynamites to blast rocks by the Istanbul Quarry in the area have been affecting their building structures in various ways.
Apex News Exclusive had gathered that the quarry has increased their blasts of the surrounding rocks with at least three to four blasts daily. In the past, such blasts were done about once in three days.
Mostly affected is the Zone D area of Mbuko but especially Zone D1 residences.
A resident, who works with a federal government agency and want his identity anonymous, said the blasts are getting closely to the residences. He said one of such blasts split rocks with one creating a hole on a zinc of a building.
Some occupants also complaint that the blasts have created some cracks on their building walls and feared that it might also have affected foundation of their houses.
It was observed that the activities of the quarry are getting buildings while leaving the other side of the hill where there are no houses.
Some of the residences told Apex News Exclusive that apart from the physical effects on the buildings, health of the people is also at risk as the dusts from such blasts could be toxic.
