adsNnimmo Bassey, executive director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, and a foremost environmental expert, delivered a paper at the Correspondents Week in Port Harcourt last week. The paper warned that the region was at the brink of explosion because of the volume of crude oil polluted into the swamps and mangrove forests, on land and in the waters.
He said the Niger Delta is the most polluted region of the world, warning that failing to clean up the region meant that oil money is blood money.
He raised the issue of oil ending without cleanup and urged the people to rise now and demand cleanup.
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When we speak about Niger Delta environment, we talk about our lived experience, not stuff out of books. That is why we must congratulate the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Rivers State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) for calling our attention to urgent need to launch a cleanup campaign of the Niger Delta.adsads
