Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission (BSOEC)

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,...

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has bemoaned the failure of the Federal Government to remit to Niger Delta states revenues from gas flare fines and royalties paid by oil firms to its coffers. Governor Diri said the oil producing states and indeed the communities in the region that bear the brunt of gas flaring have been deprived of the revenue accruing to the Federal Government over the years. He again lamented the situation where oil companies situate their administrative offices far from their operational bases and shortchanging states like Bayelsa of personal income and other taxes. Senator Diri stated this on Monday during an expanded state executive council meeting during which the final report of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission (BSOEC) was pre...

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