Gas Pollution: We write again with utter displeasure – Property owners tell Delta AG /Commissioner for Justice

Nine other property owners at Ubeji in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have written fresh petition to Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ekemejero Ohwovoriole SAN, expressing utter displeasure over the AG’s perceived inaction regarding the 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.

In their latest petition dated August 30, 2024 and signed by one of them, Samuel Esiegbuya, the property owners, noted: “We are writing once again to you with utterly displeasure and perturbed that prior to the aforesaid statement, no concern or information, has gotten to us again since after the said meeting and it is obvious that we are really not too comfortable with the delay and absence of communication, hence this collective reminder and or a call to duty.

“We are using this medium to re appeal to your reputable office and personality to kindly and timely expedite action in the matter as it has become a tradition or routine to some of us here as landlords to usually conduct yearly maintenances on our respective properties by means of preventing decays and defaces on our walls and other defects due the said common environmental and human enemy called Gas flaring in our area.

“We remain most oblige as a people and will be glad at your inputs or efforts in this regard and will appreciate also if you will not hesitate to do the right thing in line with your oath of allegiance to upholding the rule of law in the interest of the devastating people and indeed the innocent environment as a whole.” 

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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