Oil-bearing and impacted communities in the Niger Delta have called for an urgent end to gas flaring in Nigeria and a transition to renewable energy.
The call made by community members across Rivers State on Friday, followed rising cases of hydrocarbon-related diseases, amid recent reports placing life expectancy in the Niger Delta at 41 years.
Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director, Environmental rights activist and HOMEF,
delivering a lecture in Port Harcourt, said that life expectancy in the Niger Delta dropped to 41 years due to decades of environmental pollution.
Community members in Rivers State said that their communities in Ogoni, Obio/Akpor, and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Areas had suffered worsening cases of environmental pollution and degradation.
