Health of Mother Earth Foundation Executive Director, Bassey
A Non-Governmental Organisation, ‘Health of Mother Earth Foundation’ has accused International Oil Companies operating in Nigeria of rebranding and divesting from onshore assets to evade responsibility for decades of environmental devastation causes by their operations in the Niger Delta.
Executive Director of the foundation and an environmentalist, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, stated this during the 2026 Correspondents’ Week organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Bassey delivered the keynote address with theme ‘The Imperatives of Comprehensive Cleanup of the Niger Delta Environment: Role of the Media’.
He alleged that the growing trend of IoCs or multinational oil companies restructuring their operations is deliberate to shield themselves from legal accountability over pollution and ecological damage in oil-bearing communities.
