Egbema Offshore Communities Demands Relief Materials , Clean Up ,Compensation To Victims , Affected Communities

 Egbema Offshore Communities Demands Relief Materials , Clean Up ,Compensation To Victims , Affected Communities

By Wilson Macaulay

Warri

The Leadership of Egbema Offshore Communities  have sent a demand notice to the Shebah Exploration and Production Company Limited ( SEPCOL)

in OML108 over the explosion of the  Floating Production Storage And Offloading Vessel ( FPSO)

in Delta State that had about 50 thousand barrels in storage that exploded and resulted to oil spill which caused destruction and damages of fishing  items/ Properties , environmental Pollution and acquatic life etc.

The Egbema Offshore Communities in their letter of demand notice  signed by Comrade Mike JK Tiemo and others, explained in part  that the explosion Which occured in the early hours of  Wednesday 2nd February 2022 affected 250 inhabitants whose fishing Properties were damaged and destroyed ,  Polluted Environment and the  death of acquatic life Which calls for urgent need for relief materials 

to be sent to the  Egbema Offshore Communities , clean up of the environment,and adequate compensation to the affected communities.

Comrade Mike JK Tiemo the National Leader  and Niger Delta Humanitarian Rights Activist who spoke extensively  on behalf of the Egbema  Offshore Communities during an interactive session ,

assertted that they are the host Communities to Chevron Nigeria Limited  as regards Offshore operations

with established and signed offshore memorandum of understanding  

(OMOU 's) including  Gbaramatu and Ogulagha Offshore Communities , Delta State Government

and Chevron Nigeria Limited, being parties in business in the same operational vicinity of   SEPCOL company operation that is near by.

Comrade Mike Tiemo, the National Leader of the Egbema Offshore Communities, and renowned b Nigeria  Delta Humanitarian Activist  emphasized in their demand notice that

the exploded vessel and the resultant spill  effect have devastitated their only means of occupation and livilhood which has led the Egbema Offshore Communities to experience unexpected 

hardship, unbearable situation and predicaments to the inhabitants.

Comrade Tiemo expressed  the position of the aggrieved Egbema people saying : " We the Egbema Offshore Communities   hereby declare and demand the sum of Five Billion Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (5,800,000,000) as compensation  to our communities and  and the over 250 inhabitants affected in respect of  the oil spill, destruction and damages to fishing properties/items, environmental pollution and aquatic life etc due to the   adverse effect,   and predicament the concerned numerous victim/inhabitants of the communities are currently undergoing or exposed to.

 Conclusively,  Comrade  Tiemo said : " We wish to make it once again  abundantly clear to Shebah Exploration and Production Company  Limited that the Egbema Offshore Communities also want  the Management of the Company  to address  other Paramount issues of mutual benefit to all relevant stakeholders and concerned Parties  in accordance to the Petroleum Act or law of the FG as demonstrated by 

Chevron Nigeria Limited Offshore Operations in the near by vicinity where

SEPCOL operates. 

The Group further more, called on  the Delta State Governnor, His Excellency, Senator Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa the Executive Governor of Delta State , Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission ( NUPRC) , National Spill Detection  And Response Agency NOSDRA to use the instruments of their good offices  intervene and direct the management of Shebah Exploration And Production Company Limited to do the needful and the rightful thing to the numerous affected Communities and inhabitants whose fishing  Properties /items were damaged and destroyed by the incident and oil spill occurs come which took place on the 2nd of February 2022.