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Our People Facing Death Sentence Over NPDC Pollution Delta Community
The pollution is believed to have occurred from the operations of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), which operates OML 40 on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest joint venture.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 16, 2021
Members of the Polobubo community also known as Tsekelewu in the Warri-North Local Government Area of Delta state have raised the alarm over crude oil spill polluting homes, farmlands, and rivers.
According to them, the pollution is a health hazard to inhabitants.
The pollution is believed to have occurred from the operations of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), which operates OML 40 on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest joint venture.
By Emma Amaize, WARRI
THE people of Polobubo, Opuama and other riverine communities in Delta State have raised the alarm over a crushing oil spillage that has left a villager dead and several persons hospitalized.
President of Polobubo bloc of Polobubo communities, Mr Paul Toruwei, who spoke for the communities, told Vanguard that the overflow occurred on March 14.
The dead victim, Pa Anthony Ebiogbo, he disclosed, died after inhaling excess gas, March 15, a day after the spillage occurred.
Calling on the Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mele Kyari, to come to the aid of the communities, he asserted: “The spill occurred in the early hours of Sunday, March 14, the major pipeline transporting crude oil from Opuama Flow Station in Oil Mining Lease (OML 40) ruptured, which resulted in the spillage of oil into all water bodies and swamp forest of the communities in the operational are
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Tension as gunmen attack another Bayelsa community
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By Emem Idio, Yenagoa
There was pandemonium as unknown gunmen invaded Ogila-ama community in Opuama Kingdom in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Although no life was reportedly lost, it was gathered that the gunmen who invaded the community in three boats shot sporadically for over three hours and destroyed properties belonging to the indigenes of the community during the attack.
Confirming the incident, a native of the community, Pastor Lorhi-bolouikie Ogoro, narrated that he received a telephone call from his sister and others in the community informing him of the attack.