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CEPEJ URGES NOSDRA TO VISIT NIGER DELTA CREEKS, COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY OIL SPILL

CEPEJ URGES NOSDRA TO VISIT NIGER DELTA CREEKS, COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY OIL SPILL

A Niger Delta based non governmental organization, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) has called on the Director General of National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), to visit communities creeks in the Niger Delta affected by oil spill.

The national coordinator of CEPEJ, Comrade Sheriff Mulade who made the call in Abuja Nigeria noted that oil spill related environmental damages need urgent attention and NOSDRA need to be abreast with numerous oil spill in the region to enable them discharge the agency's statutory obligations to the people. 

He said, "CEPEJ as a Niger Delta based Non Governmental Organization, with special focus on re-orientation, Peace building, Environmental best practices and Human right advocacy organization has extended it advocacy programmes aimed at ensuring pollution free and environmentally friendly oil exploration to every parts of Nigeria".

"We see reasons to redirect the attention of NOSDRA to several explosions of oil and gas facilities, pipelines resulting to severe environmental ecological damages, there are numerous substandard oil and gas transportation facilities that are often prone to leakage, spill and explosion, If NOSDRA makes it a priority to know the location of such facilities they could give a better response operations which includes detection, prevention and result oriented response".

CEPEJ boss also drew the attention of   NOSDRA  to the preventable incident of 11 persons who died in 2016, from a pipeline explosion at Agip’s oilfield in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, noting that it was necessary to call on NOSDRA to plan for a familiarisation visit to oil spills affected sites particularly in the creeks and interact with host communities across Niger Delta. 

He called on NOSDRA to correctly evaluate  the volume of crude and gas that has been discharged into the surrounding environment arising from various explosions, leakages, equipment failures and third party interference.

 "It is also important to inspect some pipelines that are due for remedial maintenance and proffer solution aimed at forestalling reoccurrence of preventable explosion and spills for the sake of the environment", he said. 

He further added that CEPEJ is rightfully disposed and competently equipped to give the agency accurate knowledge of the Niger Delta creeks that are overrun with numerous forms of pipelines that could explode anytime and wreck  havoc on the environment.

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