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Despoliation By Oil Companies: We dwell in river but have no potable water, Bayelsa community cries vanguardngr.com vanguardnews

The inhabitants spoke through the traditional head of the community, Chief Otubo Jonathan-Kpeli when the newly inaugurated Bayelsa State Environmental Degradation Commission of Inquiry headed by Most Rev. Rt Hon. Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, visited the community and others on a fact-finding mission.

“This suffering and smiling: the common ailment here is cancer and kidney disease. The years of pollution has destroyed our means of livelihood,” he added.Indigenes back Dickson on Commission of Inquiry Indigenes of oil-bearing communities in the state, who have had to contend with many years of environmental despoliation occasioned by the activities of oil multinationals, have thrown their weight behind the Commission, which is to investigate the negative impact of oil exploration over the years.

He said that a UN survey revealed that crude oil spillage causes the death of over 16,000 infants within the first month of birth in the Niger Delta.

 

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