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Oil Doom: Communities Paying The Price Of Centenary Nigeria By Yinka Adeparusi

Spillage at Idu oil field in Egbebiri, Bayelsa State

e set up to burnout the crude oil that spilled into his environment consumed part of the polythene material covering the roof of his house

Freeborn and his wife left their house (pictured) because of the health condition of the twins to stay far away from the stench of the oil but they returned in February after the rent fee paid by a sponsor expired

Mother, Patience, taking care of the children at a nearby hospital

Patience said she was happy when she gave birth to the twins and now she is cared of losing them

The home of the Rolands is always crowded by concerned visitors, such as the officials of Environmental Rights Action who visited on this evening

Twins-at-ill: Freeborn and Roland pay more attention to Godday and Godpower, although they had four other children before the twins

A weak Godpower

Oil slick at Geiwuh in Ikarama

Layer of oil at Ikarama

Oil streams are commonplace in Niger Delta of Nigeria

Not humans alone suffer the consequences

Many farmlands have been destroyed by consistent spillage either by sabotage or corrosion

Widow, Grace Yerizima is still waiting to be compensated after his farm was burnt and rendered infertile by spill in July 2010

Former Councillor at Ikarama Okordia, Domingo Ibator feels oil pipes sabotage is due to government being insensitive to the plights of Niger Delta youths

Hands that can no longer farm

Vincent Uchenna Obi suffered second degree burns on his hands, legs and some parts of his body after a gas explosion at his farm

Obi’s family with the help of his new wife, Vera, can still produce Garri from cassava

Obi’s former wife, Juliana (in frame), left him on the hospital bed because she feared he would die

Gas fountain: Gas leaking near a farmland at Ebocha in Rivers State

Farmer, Okechukwu Nduka from Okwuzi said people thought he was using drugs when his eyes started getting red some about 3 years ago, although he cannot tell if a major gas leakage around his farm at Mpata had anything to do with it

Always smiling two-and-half –years-old Chigemezu Osanapa appeared to have weaned to his environmental condition after struggling initially

. A-year-and-half-old Humble is always dizzy, drifts backward every time he tries to concentrate on something, slurry, and his skin has never been clear

Lights on! Gas flaring night at Ebocha in Rivers State

A burnt motorcycle near a gas leak opposite a farm in Ebocha

Oil Doom: Communities Paying The Price Of Centenary Nigeria By Yinka Adeparusi

Aug 05 2014

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