PAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and a group, \u201cWe The People (WTP),\u201d have decried alleged Federal Government\u2018s lack of commitment to the Niger Delta environmental situation, despite International Oil Companies…
\nPAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and a group, We The People (WTP), have decried alleged Federal Government\u2018s lack of commitment to the Niger Delta environmental situation, despite International Oil Companies (IOCs), which messed up the region, are leaving the area.
\nThey\u00a0 vowed to sue the IOCs for the destruction of the environment and livelihood of the people in the course of oil exploration and exploitation.
\nThe Executive Director of WTP, Ken Henshaw, while speaking, y in Port Harcourt, in a one-day multi-stakeholders conference on oil company divestment in the Niger Delta, said the damage done by oil companies was enough to take them to court.
\nHenshaw said: \u201cI think what the oil companies have done to the Niger Delta, the environmental pollution they have caused, the livelihood lost, the destruction of the environment they engendered are well known and we\u2019ll document health risks the companies have created. They are enough grounds to take them to court.
\n\u201cWe think the oil companies can be found wanting on the basis of the fact that they have, for 64 years of extraction, destroyed the traditional livelihood of the people.\u201d
\n\u201cThe oil that has spilled onto the land, into the creeks and rivers of the Niger Delta region, has reduced the life expectancy in the Niger Delta region. Life expectancy in Nigeria is 54 years but life expectancy in Niger Delta is between 41 and 45 years.\u201d
\nNational Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Ken Robinson, said: \u201cOn the issue of divestment, we, the people of Niger Delta need to ask ourselves the question; what do we do? Niger Delta communities are occupied communities and not host communities as it were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and a group, \u201cWe The People (WTP),\u201d have decried alleged Federal Government\u2018s lack of commitment to the Niger Delta environmental situation, despite International Oil Companies… PAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and a group, We The People (WTP), have decried alleged Federal Government\u2018s lack of commitment to the Niger Delta environmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309137,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309127\/revisions\/309137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}