Ogonis urge Shell to clamp Bodo Oil spillage, compensate affected communities

A group, the Ogoni Peoples Assembly (OPA), has called on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently clamp down the ruptured trunk line that has spilled oil into the Bodo communities in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The group, in a press statement issued in Port Harcourt by its leader, Reverend Probel Williams, and Secretary, Dr Evidence Ep-aaBari Enoch, called on the company to send relief materials and pay compensation to residents of Bodo communities affected by the oil spillage.

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The oil spillage, which occurred a couple of days ago from Shell’s Trans National Trunkline spilled into Sugi, Deebon and Kol-naana River in Bodo community, also affected residential areas.

Reverend Probel Williams said that since the spillage occurred, the company was yet to clamp the spillage which he said destroyed farmlands and polluted the community’s source of drinking water.

Similarly, Reverend Williams has advised the United Nation Environmental Program (UNEP) to avoid those it described as enemies of Ogoniland in diverting contracts meant for capable and competent indigenous companies to foreign firms.