Gas flare pollution: Nine property owners back Esiegbuya, petition Delta Attorney-General/ Commissioner for Justice

Barely four months after an entrepreneur and property owner in Ubeji, Warri, Delta State, Mr. Samuel Esiegbuya, petitioned the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Delta State, Mr. Ekemejero Ohwovoriole, SAN, over what he termed protracted matter of “environmental enemy called gas flaring and its associated and deadly Black Soots”, allegedly caused by the operations of NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Limited, nine other property owners within same axis, have joined him to co-sign a fresh petition and addressed same to the Commissioner.

Recall that Mr. Esiegbuya, in the letter dated March 18, 2024 and made available to Fresh Angle International, Thursday March 28, mentioned Agberuku crescent and Mone street in Ubeji Community, Warri, as areas worst hit by the pollution caused by the gas flare.

In the joint petition dated June 11, 2024, Messrs. Samuel Esiegbuya, Omatsola Calvin Obbu, Olumide Agbolayah, Steven Jolomi, Eyeoyibo Victor Tuoyo, Thomas T. Mebuliaghanje and Gabriel Odibo as well as Mrs. Margret Etsano, Mrs. Queen Quaker and Mrs. Helen Melediare, noted inter-alia: “Further to a letter dated 18th March 2024 written and addressed to your office by one  Mr. Samuel Esiegbuya, who is also a landlord with the above mentioned captioned and a respond letter with ref: DTMJ.10/1673/28 dated 28th May 2024, we the undersigned persons and equally landlords in the place, do write to corroborate everything and support the matter.

“We also urge you to exercise due diligence in the circumstances of the entire issue, to help mediate and proffer a lasting solution to this protracted and ever perennial environmental problem, being orchestrated in the area by the highly insensitive Management of NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Limited erstwhile (Nigerian Gas Company Limited NGC) and which acts has been affecting or bedeviling everyone of us in the community, for over a decade and particularly or majorly we the stakeholders and landlords, legitimately residing at proximity and or immediate environment to the Gas plant, belonging to the erring group in the area termed the Ubeji Satellite Community comprising of Agberuku Crescent, Mone Street and  Agbolayah road.

“We are the mostly and severely affected by the densely particulate matter called (Black Soots) and its associated toxicity with health and environmental negative and visible impacts on lives, properties, the innocent environment and its ecosystems at large.”

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