PIA: CSOs Demand Action As Spills, Gas Flares Devastate A/Ibom Oil Communities

A coalition of non – Civil Society Organisations including other non – State actors converging for the 2026 Climate Week in Upenekang, one of the oil communities devastated by oil spills and gas flaring, have rallied residents for urgent action to draw government attention to menace
The car conferees including the Network Advancement Program for Poverty and Disaster Risk Reduction (NAPDRR), Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and other concerned organisations, lamented the wholesale destruction of farmlands and water pollutions.
Resource persons at the forum noted with empathy that fumes occasioned by oil and gas exploration by both local and International Oil Companies (IOCs) h...