Education
NGO Trains Students On Oil Spills
A non-governmental organisation, Stakeholders Alliance for Corporate Accountability, SACA, has intensified efforts in training of students of Bayelsa State schools on effects of oil spillages.
The Tide learnt that as part of SACA’s campaigns against the dangers associated with spills, it kick-started and has since concluded a five-day training of pupils and students of both public and private schools in the state.
The Tide reports that the training programme tagged: ‘A 5-day child safe guarding training of C-club members from 20 schools’ had no fewer than 400 students of primary and secondary schools. Across the state in attendance.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after the exercise,Executive Director, SACA,Mr Kingsley Ozegbe described the effects of oil spill on pregnant mothers,their foetus and young children as deadly.
He noted that various studies by notable foreign and local agencies have shown that the damages incurred by oil spills on the environment and human life far outweighs the ephemeral gains associated with the multinationals operating in the Niger Delta region.
Ozegbe hinted that the NGOs quest towards having an oil spill-free Niger Delta and children safe from the hazards inherent in the event of spills had made SACA to partner the Bayelsa State Ministries of Education, Health and Environment for the purposes of fast tracking the sensitisation against oil spills.
He averred that outside SACA’s partnering the trio of the government’s ministries, they have had cause to also collaborate with the Catholic Education Board as well as the national association of proprietors of private schools,NAPPS,just as he commended an Irish Organisation (MISCEAN CARA for providing funding for the training of the students,saying this stems from its desire to put to an end the deadly effects of oil spillages in the Niger Delta.
“This training for students was necessitated by MISCEAN CARA of Ireland’s unpretentious desire to partner SACA and other well meaning bodies and individuals towards ending as well as safeguarding children from the effects of spillages”, he said.
The Education Ministry described the NGOs activities as a ‘no mean feat’, assuring that they were willing to partner the organization in carrying out its sensitization programme to greater heights within the limits of support the Ministry can give.
By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa
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