The community alleged that because of the environmental contamination of the land and water, it will take many years before the environment is useful and productive again.
“The action of the company is condemnable, absurd and an infringement to the community’s fundamental right to live and utilise its natural resources.”“We, the people of the community hereby demand immediate compensation for the damages, pains, trauma caused us by the company’s waste disposal into our stream. We demand a compensation of N300 million.”“The compensation should be within 30 working days from the day of the receipt of this letter.
“Omege community is not within our area of operation. They didn’t give us land directly and so, they are not our land owners. What they are claiming is not correct. “Where the community is busy writing and claiming environmental hazard is almost five kilometres away from our operations base after our host community. Our host community doesn’t have any complaint on any kind of effluent discharge or any damage”, he said.