The Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development in Bayelsa state, Chief Godknows Powell while speaking to newsmen in Yenagoa, has directed the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently embark on a comprehensive clean-up of the oil spill from its Bonga oil terminal which has affected shore line, aquatic lives and communities in Brass, Southern Ijaw and Ekeremor local government areas of the state and in other states.
Chief Powell said that while Shell claimed that the Bonga spill has been clean-up the negative effect of the spill on the environment, forest, aquatic and wild life in many communities proved contrary. And any further delay in the containment of the spill, according to him, was capable of posing serious danger to human lives.
The Commissioner urged SPDC to collaborate with the state government in providing relief materials for the affected communities. He also appealed to Bayelsans whose farmland and fishing ponds were affected to exercise patience and restraint as government was seeking urgent solution to the problem, stressing that Shell is under obligation to pay compensation for the damage done to the environment.
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