By: Felix Ikpotor
Another oil spill has been reported in Bodo community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
This is coming barely two weeks after an earlier spill was reported at a Shell facility in the community.
The earlier spill is yet to be cleaned.
Mr. Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface of the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) who revealed the spill in a statement said members of YEAC-Nigeria’s grassroots monitors and advocacy team under the auspices of “One Million Youth Volunteers Network of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters in the Niger Delta” reported that the new spill occurred in Bodo in the late evening of Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
Cause of the spill cannot be immediately ascertained at the time of this report.
