Reps summon NNPC over environmental degradation
The House of Representatives Committee on Environment has invited the NNPC Eighteen Operating Ltd to appear before it on March 4.
Rep. Julius Pondi, the committee chairman, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday, saying the invite followed the inability of NNPC Eighteen Operating Ltd to appear on February 18.
The committee had received a petition from relevant stakeholders on the environmental degradation and pollution of the Buguma and Degema areas of Rivers by oil drilling activities.
The committee received a formal complaint against NNPC Eighteen Operating Ltd on the fire and oil spill incident in Buguma, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State.
The committee had also invited relevant stakeholders and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) to deliberate on the complaints by the Bukuma community in Rivers.
The community had alleged the refusal of NNPC to implement a 2021 court judgement on grouping of the oil communities into clusters for development purposes.
(NAN)
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