Bayelsa community suffers water shortage after crude oil spill from Shell facility.
The people of Nigeria’s Obololi Community in the Tarakiri clan of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State are appealing for portable water and food to enable them to survive the current oil industry induced environmental degradation, after a crude oil spill from Shell facility that occurred across the creeks, polluting their rivers and sources of drinking water.
Environment watchdog, Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), which made the disclosure, said that it received information about the current oil spill in the early hours of Wednesday, February 19, 2025, from the Special Assistant to the Southern Ijaw local government area Chairman on Oil and Gas, Mr. Stephen Timifa Leghemo, after he led a team from the LGA to the community on the spill matter.
