Gas Flaring: Niger Delta Group Threatens Court Action against FG, IOCs

-
Image result for gas flaring in nigeria
A Niger Delta based-non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), on Monday threatened to initiate court action against the federal government and multinational companies over failure to put an end to gas flaring in the region.

To prevent court action, the group therefore urged the government to compel multinational oil companies to immediately begin the process of putting an end to gas flaring in the oil rich Niger Delta region and threatened to drag the government and oil firms to court if nothing is urgently done to address the issue.

The National Coordinator of CEPEJ, Sheriff Mulade in a statement issued in Warri, Delta State, decried the continued gas flaring by multinational oil companies in the region, noting that adequate measures must be put in place now to eliminate gas flaring.


The environmentalist claimed that the federal government was not doing enough to call multinational oil companies to order over their continued gas flaring, adding that consideration should be given to the lives of people being exposed to the hazard of gas flaring in the region.

He implored the federal government to enforce the ultimatum to the multinationals issued to them long ago and recommended stiff sanctions against, including withdrawal of operational licences of defaulting oil firms.

"We are not happy about the flagrant manner in which multinationals disobey orders to stop gas flaring in the region. We are worried about the increased mortality  rate caused by gas flaring in host communities. Unless serious steps are taken by  the federal government against these multinational oil companies to  end gas flaring, host communities may have no choice but to take their destiny in their own  hands," he said.

He added that "the  federal government should not be silent over the gas flaring when people in the region  are being poisoned by black carbon emitted into the air through gas flaring. It is the responsibility of the federal government to compel multinational oil companies to abide by environmental best practices for the safety of our eco-system."

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Court Stops National Assembly From Taking Over Bauchi Assembly

-
Image
As the National Assembly received a report from the committee it sent to Bauchi State to probe the leadership crisis rocking the state assembly since its inauguration last month, the state high court on Monday issued an order of interim injunction ordering that the present Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Abubakar Suleiman and Danlami Kawule respectively,   should continue leading the assembly pending the determination of the suit before it. Justice Muazu Abubakar, who issued the order, fixed October 3, 2019, for hearing of the motion and substantive application filed by the speaker, deputy speaker and other 11 members of the assembly who participated in the assembly election. Abubakar said after listening to and considering the submissions made by the lawyers of the applicants Barrister Jibrin Sa'id Jibrin, A.S Idris and U.K Adam, he hereby ordered that status qou between the parties in the suit be maintained until the determination of the motion on notice. I
Read more

Population of Doctors in Nigeria Hits 74,543

-
Image
  The number of registered medical doctors in Nigeria has risen to 74,543. According to the federal government statistics, as at 2018, the stock of professionally regulated health workers in Nigeria health sector has also recorded a significant increase. The population equates to 36.3 percent of medical doctors per 100,000 population (doctor to population ratio of 1: 2753). Fifty-nine percent of the registered medical practitioners were in good standing with 35 percent being females. While presenting the statistics at a one-day workshop on Nigeria Health Workforce for Universal Health Coverage organised by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Abuja, Deputy Director, Human Resource Department, Shakuri Kadiri, said there is a variation in the distribution of medical doctors by state of practice from the reported 2012 density. He said: "The density of medical doctors presented is based on the number of doctors in good stan
Read more

UBEC Board Chairman, Daughter Freed from Captivity

-
Image
The Board Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Muhammed Mahmoud, and his daughter were on Tuesday released by their abductors. Mahmoud, his daughter and several other travellers were abducted last Monday on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway when suspected bandits open fire at them. The UBEC boss’ driver was said to have been killed during the incident. There has been no information about other commuters who were abducted by the bandits. Mahmood's freedom was confirmed in a telephone interview by Hussaini Danladi, a relation, who said they were freed from captivity at about noon yesterday. Danladi, however, did not say whether a ransom was paid before their release. The kidnappers seemed to have taken over the Kaduna-Abuja expressway which has been deserted by travellers following the deadly activities of the criminals-kidnapping, armed robbery among others Despite the massive deployment of security of personnel on t
Read more