A fresh oil spill has hit the Bodo community in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, destroying farmlands.
It was learnt that the oil spillage occurred on Thursday from a pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company.
This came barely two months after a similar incident occurred along the pipeline at different locations in the area.
One of the affected residents, Monica said they heard a blast at about 1 pm saying the spillage had destroyed farmlands, and rivers, which the people depend on for their livelihood.
A non-governmental organisation, Eco Defence Alliance, slammed the multinational company for refusing to proffer permanent solutions to the problem of oil spills on its facility in the area.
In a statement, the Coordinator, Eco Defence Alliance, Damian Gbogbara, said the latest spill occurred on Thursday in the Sugi area of the Bodo community.
Gbogbara said the incident in an area not far from where multiple oil spills have occurred in recent times on the Trans-Niger Pipeline operated by Shell.
He called on the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency to embark on a joint investigation visit with Shell and other relevant stakeholders to the spill site in the Sugi Area of Bodo City and not to delay as it has always been doing.
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