The group claimed that “the oil companies did not provide relief materials and did not extend any financial help or compensation to families who desperately needed assistance.' Osisioma Nigeria
The rights group in a suit, HOS/88/2019, filed by Joseph Otteh and Daniel Aloaye on behalf of some of the affected families, before Abia State High Court, Ossisioma, joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company .
The inferno, they stated, caused devastated several residents of Umuaduru and Umuimo villages as well as residents of Uratta, Umuze and Njiko Umunna Autonomous Communities in Osisioma Ngwa. They are paying for an order of special damages against the defendants, jointly and severally, in the sum of N15 million. Access to Justice said that on October 20, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, issued a statement claiming that suspected oil thieves likely caused the explosion.
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