The environmental tribunal, sitting at the Luton Park Hotels in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday ,further noted that gas flaring
Professor Sofiri Joab-Peterside, the Tribunal Judge, sitting over the Environmental Tribunal, organised by the Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre has indicted all the oil companies operating in the region who were accused of gas flaring and spillage, guilty as charged.further noted that gas flaring, coupled with oil spills has caused untold hardship to the environments of the appellants, resulting in the untimely deaths and destruction of the aquatic lives of the communities.
The Kebetkache Women Development is a civil society organisation committed to environmental justice and good governance. He alleged that “black substances” were discovered to be ruining their source of drinking water, adding that investigations were still being carried out over the soutce and effect of the residue; which report, he assured would be made public when concluded.
She stated, “the spill dragged into people’s farms, into the creeks, and destroy our products as well as aquatic lives.” According to her, “We are holding this tribunal to encourage communities that their cases are not forgotten by civil society even if they have been forgotten by the government and other duty bearers.
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