(All Voices) OVER 10,000 citizens, including women and children, in the Edo State axis of the Niger Delta, have been cut-off from the source of their drinking water following an oil spill which occurred at a facility belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The development is currently causing serious concern in the environmental rights community in the volatile oil region.
Already, the country's foremost environmental rights advocacy platform, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) is pressing the Federal Government to compel the NNPC to clean up the Akhiaba River in Edo State, polluted by the corporation’s facility and compensate two communities impacted by the spill.