make officials complacent about remediating the dumpsite to forestall generational disease. The chemicals are potent and were in concentrated form. I would worry about leacheate into the groundwater and aquifers. And Ivory Coast is in no political shape to save themselves as at now. I hope the elections will yield the necessary reflection and calm to save the nation from insiduous decay.
 

Ivory Coast waste 'victims' receive Trafigura payout

Two civil protection workers pass by a bulldozer clearing a site polluted with toxic waste at the Akouedo district in Abidjan
The case concerns chemical waste dumped in 2006

People from Ivory Coast who said they had been made ill by dumped waste have begun to receive compensation cheques, after a four-year legal battle.

Hundreds of Ivorians - many of them without bank accounts - queued for hours to receive their cheques.

Some 30,000 people are in line for a share of a $45m (£30m) payout from the multi-national oil company Trafigura.

The firm has always denied that the waste was dangerous, or that it knew the chemicals would be dumped.

Read the rest of the story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8548216.stm

Haruna.

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