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beaches in Nigeria make it a little bit difficult, but
I think it’s something that can be replicated …

when I get back to Lagos. I enjoyed the tour of

the Swartkops River. Dr Paul [Martin], as our tour
guide, exhibited a very impressive level of

expertise and knowledge of that river from the
estuary back to its source, and it was very good

to learn about the diversity of the lives that the
river sustains, even if things were a bit … not so

encouraging. The weird manner in which the
bridge was constructed, for instance, which
narrowed significantly the flow of the river … The

fact that a canal that was supposed to take care
of wastewater from another side of the city

empties its dirty water into the river also was a
sort of low point, and the lesson that it leaves

with me is the need for different agencies of
government to synchronise their objectives.”

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