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Nigeria’s Lower Niger dredging campaigns, 1909–2014: the politics of a Lugardian inland water transport project versus the global playbook
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The paper examines the policy of Sir Frederick Lugard to dredge the Lower Niger for all-year-round navigability in the early 1900s. As well as its politics, dredging history and a comparison with the Pearl River and the Mississippi, the River Niger study focused on “Lugard’s colonial imperatives” about the river in contrast to the challenges of its peculiar characteristics vis-à-vis the dynamics of Nigeria’s inland water transport (IWT) market in the post-independence era and the corrupt procurement processes for the dredging campaigns which, concertedly, affected its real and perceived utility. Archival, primary and secondary data sources were used, with qualitative analytical methodology. The findings include the lack of off-take cargoes and commercial voyages even after the latest dredging campaigns, zero opportunity cost of the river system, environmental and host community challenges, and the effects of the so-called “downward march of the Sahara Desert” on the river’s future, as well as ‘nearly-impossible’ milestones in the capital and maintenance dredging objectives. The conclusion compares the operational and commercial problems, the budget constraints and the transparency issues against alternative global models and argues that the episodic dredging campaigns ought to be scrapped and Nigeria’s IWT policy reviewed to avoid further unjustifiable dredging spends in favour of better models of river systems management.
Nigeria’s Lower Niger dredging campaigns, 1909–2014: the politics of a Lugardian inland water transport project versus the global playbook
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8342-556X
The paper examines the policy of Sir Frederick Lugard to dredge the Lower Niger for all-year-round navigability in the early 1900s. As well as its politics, dredging history and a comparison with the Pearl River and the Mississippi, the River Niger study focused on “Lugard’s colonial imperatives” about the river in contrast to the challenges of its peculiar characteristics vis-à-vis the dynamics of Nigeria’s inland water transport (IWT) market in the post-independence era and the corrupt procurement processes for the dredging campaigns which, concertedly, affected its real and perceived utility. Archival, primary and secondary data sources were used, with qualitative analytical methodology. The findings include the lack of off-take cargoes and commercial voyages even after the latest dredging campaigns, zero opportunity cost of the river system, environmental and host community challenges, and the effects of the so-called “downward march of the Sahara Desert” on the river’s future, as well as ‘nearly-impossible’ milestones in the capital and maintenance dredging objectives. The conclusion compares the operational and commercial problems, the budget constraints and the transparency issues against alternative global models and argues that the episodic dredging campaigns ought to be scrapped and Nigeria’s IWT policy reviewed to avoid further unjustifiable dredging spends in favour of better models of river systems management.
Nigeria’s Lower Niger dredging campaigns, 1909–2014: the politics of a Lugardian inland water transport project versus the global playbook
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8342-556X
The paper examines the policy of Sir Frederick Lugard to dredge the Lower Niger for all-year-round navigability in the early 1900s. As well as its politics, dredging history and a comparison with the Pearl River and the Mississippi, the River Niger study focused on “Lugard’s colonial imperatives” about the river in contrast to the challenges of its peculiar characteristics vis-à-vis the dynamics of Nigeria’s inland water transport (IWT) market in the post-independence era and the corrupt procurement processes for the dredging campaigns which, concertedly, affected its real and perceived utility. Archival, primary and secondary data sources were used, with qualitative analytical methodology. The findings include the lack of off-take cargoes and commercial voyages even after the latest dredging campaigns, zero opportunity cost of the river system, environmental and host community challenges, and the effects of the so-called “downward march of the Sahara Desert” on the river’s future, as well as ‘nearly-impossible’ milestones in the capital and maintenance dredging objectives. The conclusion compares the operational and commercial problems, the budget constraints and the transparency issues against alternative global models and argues that the episodic dredging campaigns ought to be scrapped and Nigeria’s IWT policy reviewed to avoid further unjustifiable dredging spends in favour of better models of river systems management.
Nigeria’s Lower Niger dredging campaigns, 1909–2014: the politics of a Lugardian inland water transport project versus the global playbook
Water Hist
Chilaka, Edmund (Autor:in)
Water History ; 15 ; 263-292
01.08.2023
30 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Lower Niger dredging , Inland water transport , River training , Colonial railways , Northern Nigeria , Niger Delta Environment , Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution , Water, general , Civil Engineering , Hydrogeology , History, general , Earth and Environmental Science
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