Rivers
Women Protest Gas Eruption In ONELGA
Women from Egita and Obite communities in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State affected by gas eruption from the Total Exploration and Production Limited facilities Monday staged a peaceful protest, calling on the federal, state and local governments to prevail on the oil multinational company to clean up their environments.
The protesters, said the gas leak has continued for three weeks, blocked the Omoku-Ahoada road and complained that most of them and their children have fallen sick after inhaling the toxic waste.
The women also said their source of drinking water had been contaminated by the waste.
They said: “We are dying. We don’t have anybody to take care of us, no place to go, no treatment, for that we are dying because of the gas explosion. Since they don’t want to take us away, we are dying”.
“It has affected us badly through our farmlands and our water. We are not living well because for some days, there was no water, it was only yesterday (Sunday) that they brought us water and we can not drink it because the water is bad”, said another woman.
Another woman who spoke to The Tide said, “I want them to take me away so that they will feed me and my family because they have spoilt the land. The land is not okey again, so we want Total to do something about it so that the suffering will stop and for now, I am very sick as I am having a stomach pain from the water I drank”.
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Rivers Judiciary Denies Issuing Court Order Stopping SOLAD from Swearing in RSCSC Members
The Rivers State Judiciary has denied a media report claiming that Justice Frank Onyiri of the State High Court issued an injunction order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), from inaugurating the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission (RSCSC).
In a statement issued by the Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation at the High Court, Menenen Poromon (Esq), the state Judiciary disassociated itself from the report, describing it as malicious and fabricated.
The statement emphasized that the report was a falsehood and a misrepresentation of what transpeared in the court.
Poromon clarified that no such order was issued by Justice Onyiri or any other judge of the High Court of the state and urged the public to disregard the information, as it lacked any iota of truth.
The statement however advised the public to verify any information concerning the state Judiciary directly from the office of the Chief Registrar, High Court of the State, to avoid spreading of misinformation.