Edo community demands N11.736bn from NPDC For Oil Pollution
Reports have it that Ikara Community in Ikpoba/Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, has dragged the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NDPC before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, as a result of the activities of the company has caused oil pollution in the land, demanding N11.736 billion as
compensation.
According to our source, the The people, in a petition by their consultant, Eyitemi Brown-Dibofun, lamented that the community could be turned into another Ogoni if nothing was done to check the crude pollution, environmental degradation and the its consequence health hazards.
The community, appealed to the House to compel NPDC to replace its old and corroded network of crude oil bearing pipelines which are prone to leakages in the locality with new pipelines.
The petition reads in part: “We act for Ikara community in Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State and their group of fishermen/women, farmers and individuals impacted by the crude oil spills from the NPDC failed pipeline in their locality on November 15 2013, January 5,bFebruary 18, 2014.
“And the fire outbreak on March 27, 2014, and another crude oil spill on April 23 2014.”
The community thereby pleaded with the House Committee to compel “NPDC to prepare a comprehensive scope of work which should include all crude oil polluted and degraded sites in Ikara community, and thereafter,
mobilize a competent contractor to commence the required thorough cleanup, remediation and restoration work of the oil impacted and degraded sites in the community.”
That your committee compel NPDC to restore the polluted and degraded Ikara community’s waterway (Ogba River) and swamplands to it pristine condition through aquaculture regeneration and reforestation so that the Ikara community people can return to their
occupation of fishing, farming, lumbering and hunting which has been brought to total ruin by years of NPDC’s crude oil pollution and its attendantenvironmental degradation.
“That the NPDC should be compelled to replace its old and corroded network of crude oil bearing pipelines which are prone to leakages in the locality with new pipelines.”
compensation.
According to our source, the The people, in a petition by their consultant, Eyitemi Brown-Dibofun, lamented that the community could be turned into another Ogoni if nothing was done to check the crude pollution, environmental degradation and the its consequence health hazards.
The community, appealed to the House to compel NPDC to replace its old and corroded network of crude oil bearing pipelines which are prone to leakages in the locality with new pipelines.
The petition reads in part: “We act for Ikara community in Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State and their group of fishermen/women, farmers and individuals impacted by the crude oil spills from the NPDC failed pipeline in their locality on November 15 2013, January 5,bFebruary 18, 2014.
“And the fire outbreak on March 27, 2014, and another crude oil spill on April 23 2014.”
The community thereby pleaded with the House Committee to compel “NPDC to prepare a comprehensive scope of work which should include all crude oil polluted and degraded sites in Ikara community, and thereafter,
mobilize a competent contractor to commence the required thorough cleanup, remediation and restoration work of the oil impacted and degraded sites in the community.”
That your committee compel NPDC to restore the polluted and degraded Ikara community’s waterway (Ogba River) and swamplands to it pristine condition through aquaculture regeneration and reforestation so that the Ikara community people can return to their
occupation of fishing, farming, lumbering and hunting which has been brought to total ruin by years of NPDC’s crude oil pollution and its attendantenvironmental degradation.
“That the NPDC should be compelled to replace its old and corroded network of crude oil bearing pipelines which are prone to leakages in the locality with new pipelines.”
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