Sun News
26 December 2011
Panic has gripped Odioma community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the crude oil flowing into the river as a result the oil spill at Bonga oil field. This is even as condemnation has continued to trail the insensitivity of the Federal Government to the incident by not making attempts to visit the area.
According to reports, the people of Odioma have been sending Save Our Soul (SOS) to international agencies on the huge oiling of their river system coming down stream from the Shell Bonga blowout.
The people of the community have concluded plans to send a delegation to the state government to come to their aid before the situation got out of hand.
A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Nengi James has declared that, “it is an injustice and a shame on the Nigerian government not to visit the site of the Bonga oil spill.”
According to him, it is an indication that there is a conspiracy between Shell and the Nigerian government to keep the Niger Delta people impoverished under systematic rule of penury in the midst of oil wealth.
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