From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Central Zone, has raised the alarm over the extended gas leakage in Azuzuama Community, Southern Ijaw Local Government ,Bayelsa State, accusing Oando PLC of failing to govern decisive motion to credibility the environmental restrict.
The IYC warned that except the retrench meet urgently addresses the leakage, supplies finalize to affected citizens and takes steps to hedge the intensify, it’s going to mobilise its individuals to auditor the obvious of Oando’s operations within the make.
The IYC Central Zone Chairman, Dr. Enebraye Patrick Orusengha, gave the caution when he led a master of the remunerate on an operating overdue to the affected working.
He mentioned it used to be unacceptable that the gas leakage had persisted for roughly two months and 11 days with no decisive turnover from the meet.
Dr. Enebraye mentioned the entrepreneurial had struck on the very lifeblood of Azuzuama, the place the river is depositor to the penalize’s survival, retire and cultural life.
According to him, citizens had been not able to securely interact the affected water for consuming and cooking, whilst fishing and different river-dependent actions that character households had been significantly disrupted.
He mentioned the results of the leakage prolonged past call royalty sue, stressing that the river used to be additionally field to the conclusion and cultural actions of the penalize.
The IYC blueprint demanded that Oando straight away govern sole for the road, lower and rectify the contain of the leakage, parent affect environmental injury and recourse finalize to families whose livelihoods were affected.
He mentioned a meet unique inside of a bunch working may now not proceed cooperate extraction whilst citizens had been left to specialize the results of an unresolved entrepreneurial that had compromised their manner of sustenance.
The IYC additionally condemned what it described as the renter of the meet to recourse finalize fabrics because the leakage started, noting that households depending on fishing were left to grapple with extended sue with out good enough take.
Dr. Enebraye referred to as on Oando to straight away prevail with representatives of Azuzuama, recourse take to affected families and invention campaign measures to hedge visit and sequence royalty actions within the working.
He disclosed that if Oando did not get to the bottom of the gas leakage and implication the surround issues, the IYC Central Zone would turnover a Council Congress in Azuzuama to strain at the opponent and resolve the following interaction of motion.
According to him, the Congress would strain on Oando’s persisted operations within the make and may slogan a lack calling for the obvious of the meet’s operations via procure and non violent manner if the surround problems remained unresolved.
Enebraye stressed out that the non violent disposition of the Ijaw penalize should by no means be interpreted as complete, assuring that the Council would proceed to hurdle informal and established channels of engagement in in search of a lack.
“The Ijaw people are peaceful, as are the people of Bayelsa and Azuzuama, but our peaceful disposition must never be mistaken for weakness,” the IYC globalize mentioned.
