Community leaders believe the deaths resulted from drinking polluted water and eating fishes, which died from pollution.
Five persons are feared dead after cholera outbreak hit about 10 communities in Delta and Bayelsa states.
They urged the Federal Government to investigate and sanction the polluters, and stop their hardship.High Chief Augustine Seibi, who led other leaders to a meeting at the weekend, said: “Some deaths have occurred in several communities because of this pollution. In Sokoh, for example, we lost three persons .Ekeremor Federated Communities also lost Ekerenwei Igenisuode and his wife, Yeikonne.
“They died of cholera, which resulted from the polluted water we drink and dead fish. That is why we need a cottage hospital and government’s intervention to allay the hunger and hardship facing us.”“It is their explorative activities, as in most oil spills, that could contaminate the waters occasioning the death of fishes and other aquatic organisms.
‘’These are further driven by the tidal flow deposited on the shores of communities and other uninhabited environments.”
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