PANDEF, WTP flay FG’S inaction on N’delta situation
PNiger Delta Forum ( PANDEF) and a group, We The People ( WTP), have decried alleged Federal Government‘ s lack of commitment to the Niger Delta environmental situation, despite International Oil Companies ( IOCS), which messed up the region, are leaving the area.
Miffed by the development, WTP has vowed to sue the IOCS for the destruction of the environment and livelihood of the people in the course of oil exploration and exploitation.
The Executive Director of WTP, Ken Henshaw, while speaking, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, in a one- day multistakeholders conference on oil company divestments in the Niger Delta, said the damage done by oil companies was enough to take them to court.
Henshaw said: “I think what the oil companies have done to the Niger Delta, the environmental pollution they have caused, the livelihood lost, the destruction of the environment they engendered are well known and we’ll document health risks the companies have created. They are enough grounds to take them to court.
“We think the oil companies can be found wanting on the basis of the fact that they have, for 64 years of extraction, destroyed the traditional livelihood of the people.”