The Fund will be transparently managed by an independent committee of professionals specifically for the remediation and healing of the affected environment.
In addition, an Enugu State High Court also granted an interim injunction restraining Milhouse Energy Services and African Pits & Quarries Ltd, their agents, servants, privies, workers, among others, from “carrying on further activities, environmental degradation, damaging and interfering in whatsoever manner with the large expanse of land situate at Ibite Awhum”
The company had mined and evacuated coal from the site since February 2022 without any payments or recourse whatsoever to the Government of Enugu State. “So, we want to see the veracity of the license, which they claim they have from the Federal Government, and we have given them a letter inviting them to a meeting.