BENIN CITY – The Management of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc., near Benin, has called on Edo Government to contain activities of illegal loggers at the Okomu National Park, which cause deforestation and threaten the existence of the animals.
The company’s Communications Officer, Mr Fidelis Olise, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin that the management made the call after the company helped to rescue an elephant that fell into a muddy ditch on Saturday night.
He said that Okomu Oil’s Managing Director, Dr Graham Hefer, who led the rescue team, made the call, after ” it took two hours of strenuous digging of a muddy hole, to save the stressed elephant.”