‘Why oil producing communities risk further environmental degradation’

States and communities outside the Niger Delta where oil and gas deposits have been found in commercial quantities in recent times will..

States and communities outside the Niger Delta where oil and gas deposits have been found in commercial quantities in recent times will experience the same extensive environmental damage as the region if current legislative and institutional structures are not reviewed.

The theme of the event in which over seventy media and civil society representatives from across the country participated was “National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency Amendment Bill : Framing Pathways to Presidential Assent”. The serious environmental plight of the Niger Delta is underscored by the fact that there are over 2, 000 oil spills in different parts of the region, which have not yet been cleaned.

It will be recalled the previous effort to make the legislation a reality was truncated as President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent after the two chambers of the national Assembly had passed it.

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