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By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo
AN environmental activist and director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, Mr Nnimmo Bassey has said prominent people with international connections, security cover, and political power are behind oil theft in the Niger Delta region.
Bassey spoke yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen during a one-day Oil fields community dialogue/training organised for residents of Ikot Ada Udo village in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on issues of environmental pollution.
He said it is a big insult where people of the communities are accused of being the ones stealing the oil as well as causing an oil spill in their communities, stressing that all the local refineries combined won’t be able to finish refining 400,000 barrels of oil that were revealed to be stolen every day in the region.
By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo
AN environmental activist and director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, Mr Nnimmo Bassey has said prominent people with international connections, security cover, and political power are behind oil theft in the Niger Delta region.
Bassey spoke yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen during a one-day Oil fields community dialogue/training organised for residents of Ikot Ada Udo village in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on issues of environmental pollution.
He said it is a big insult where people of the communities are accused of being the ones stealing the oil as well as causing an oil spill in their communities, stressing that all the local refineries combined won’t be able to finish refining 400,000 barrels of oil that were revealed to be stolen every day in the region.
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The shelter will provide temporary accommodation for women and girls at risk or impacted by GBV as well provide psychosocial support and empowerment for the vulnerable.
Founder of the NGO, Betty Abah, at the commissioning of the shelter yesterday stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global spike in GBV, including intimate partner violence, physical battery, sexual violence and all sorts of domestic violence.