The governor says 16,000 infants are killed annually by oil spill.

Bayelsa govt names ex-Ghanaian president, Church of England’s leader on oil spill panel

Governor Seriake Dickson on Thursday named John Sentamu of the Church of England head of a high-powered international panel to probe deadly oil spills in Bayelsa State.

At the inauguration of the commission of inquiry in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Thursday, Mr Dickson canvassed urgent international investigation to hold major oil companies to account and engender restitution for the people of Niger-Delta “who have continued to pay severe prices for decades of oil exploration and production”.

The governor expressed confidence that the ten-man Commission òf Inquiry on Environmental Degradation would help resolve some of the crucial issues, especially as it is led by Mr Sentamu, the Archbishop of York and second most-senior official of the Church of England, coming directly behind the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Other members of the committee include Valerie Amos, Engobo Emeseh, Anna Zalik, Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, the commission’s secretary; Roland Hodler and Michael Watts.PREMIUM TIMES also reached out to Chevron and Shell for comments.

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