Gov Diri raises the alarm on the extreme pollution of Niger Delta, presents Environmental Report To President Tinubu *Says Non Completion of East West Road unacceptable
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State Tuesday, bemoaned the level of environmental pollution of the state occasioned by the activities of oil companies during a visit to President Bola Tinubu in the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Senator Diri, who led a delegation of Bayelsa political and traditional leaders as well as president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, and president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Jonathan Lokpobiri, during the visit, formally presented the report of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission (BSOEC) titled: “An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human and Environmental Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria,” to President Tinubu.
The international commission chaired by a former Archbishop of York, Rt. Rev (Dr.) John Sentamu,...