The coalition, which includes Social Action, MIIDEEKOR, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Oilwatch, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), and other community groups, made the call during an Emergency Community/Civic Parliament and Medical Outreach organised in Bille, where residents, women, youths and children marched with placards highlighting the devastating impact of an ongoing hydrocarbon eruption and gas pollution on the community.
Residents along with a coalition of civil society organisations have condemned what they described as the Nigerian government’s continued inaction over the worsening environmental and humanitarian crisis in Bille Kingdom, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The coalition, which includes Social Action, MIIDEEKOR, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Oilwatch, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), and other community groups, made the call during an Emergency Community/Civic Parliament and Medical Outreach organised in Bille, where residents, women, youths and children marched with placards highlighting the devastating impact of an ongoing hydrocarbon eruption and gas pollution on the community.
Some of the placards read: “The Gas Bubbles Are Not Decorations, They Are Poison,” “Bille Is On Fire,” “No Fishing, No Farming, No Livelihood,” “Our Mangroves Are Gone, Our Water Polluted,” and “Get the Oil Companies to Stop the Gas Pollution.”
