….Arch Bishop of York, Ex-Ghana President, John Kufou, Eight others as members The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon.Seriake Dickson has set up the State Environmental Degradation Commission of Inq…
….Arch Bishop of York, Ex-Ghana President, John Kufou, Eight others as members
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, who inaugurated the Commission yesterday at the State Executive Chamber of the Government House, said the Commission has a life span of Nine months to submit it’s report and such duration can be extended on request of the Commission. “The work of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, I hope, will transform the lives of the people of Bayelsa and the environments in which our citizens live. These are our lives. This is our future. We will work together to restore all of Bayelsa, for ourselves and for the next generations. Thank you for being part of that mission.”
Earlier, the State Commissioner for Environment, noted that a team of forensic expert commissioned in 2012 to study the impact of oil pollution on bayelsa environment has confirmed that the environment has been destroyed by the activities of multinational oil and Gas with over 13million barrels of crude oil spilled since the 1950s.
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