The call was made at a media briefing in Uyo by the State Director of the Center for Human Rights and Accountability Network, Franklyn Isong on behalf of other CSOs on Thursday.
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According to reports, the spill, which occurred around 6 pm on Monday at a facility operated by Aiteo Exploration and Production is coming 3 years after the oil and gas blowout at a well owned by the company in the area.
Diri spoke after receiving a report from a team of government officials and journalists who visited the area on Tuesday.
Ayadi told the News Agency of Nigeria that the President’s prompt dispatch of Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum to the spill site had sent signal of hope to the fishermen.
The communities were affected by an oil spill caused by the oil company in 1970.
Peter Idabor, the Director General, National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency, on Tuesday called for assent to the agency’s amendment bill to ensure criminalisation of oil spill in the country.
Peter Idabor, Director General of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency said this at the flag-off of a Joint Activation and Drill Exercise in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
The communities’ representatives spoke in reaction to the purported statement by the spokesman of the NNPC, Garba Deen Mohammed, that what happened was not a spill but a leakage from products tanks following a burst pipeline from the PPMC facility in the area
The Community leader explained that Eneh Awa village was where the community first noticed the oil spill, which is 14 kilometres from Ibeno beach
Kingsley Ugabi (APC Etsako East), who moved the motion under matters of urgent public importance during plenary on Monday in Benin, said the oil spillage had caused pollution to farmlands
The spokesperson of the community, Chief Columbus John-Bull, expressed the people’s concern over the incident in an interview with the New Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Sunda
The investigation was led by the regulators – NOSDRA and DPR – with the representatives of the Bayelsa State Ministry of the Environment, host communities and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited
Rev. Samuel Ayadi, the Coordinator of Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria, Niger Delta chapter, made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Sunday
Community sources in Odioama told NAN on telephone that the waters along the Atlantic coastline were covered by a thick coat of oil which compelled them to suspend fishing
Governor Uduaghan, in a statement in Asaba on Monday, commended the report, which he said confirms what has been known about the real source of spill that has damaged the Niger Delta region and is impoverishing the people
Adikoko said that the leak, which was noticed last Monday, was promptly reported to officials of Agip but expressed regrets that the leak was yet to be fixed as at the time of filling this report
He said: “Most members of Bodo community unanimously rejected an offer for compensation from oil company Shell, calling the amount derisory and insulting at the conclusion of talks between their lawyers and the energy giant in Port Harcourt
The source said that the company had made the proposal and was awaiting the response of the community’s representatives and their lawyers
NAN reports that the latest oil spill, which occurred on May 6, has impacted on JK4, Betterland, Ikarama and Kalaba communities
“We learnt that some officials of Shell came to work there on Tuesday and it may be the cause