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| Gathering of spilled oil in the Niger Delta |
WARRI—OKPELEAMA community of Gbaramatu in Warri South- West Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, sent a save our souls, SOS,to the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, over an oil spill which they said had spread to its coasts.
A statement by Yabrade Moses, Chairman of the community, said, “The spill had caused severe damage and disruption of fishing and farming activities which are our major sources of livelihood.”
He said that the spill was first noticed recently emanating from the petroleum pipeline along Ikpokpo/Okpeleama Creek (parts of the 335.5 hectares of Ikpokpo/Okpele-Ama land already acquired for the EPZ/Deep Sea Port Project).
He appealed to Governor Okowa to urgently order a “joint investigation visit (JIV) to ascertain the impact of the spill and carry out immediate remediation so as to prevent further decay of an already fragile ecosystem.”
The community lamented that its present ordeal was coming without recovery from an earlier humanitarian crisis/hunger on most of its inhabitants displaced from parts of its land acquired for the ongoing Escravos EPZ project without compensation or empowerment.
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