The resolution followed the adoption of a motion titled “Urgent Need for Intervention in the illegal oil Exploration, Environmental Pollution, Epidemic Outbreak and Communal Clash as a result of Operation of Sterling Global Oil Company at Ogwu Ikpele in Ogbaru Federal Constituency of Anambra State”, sponsored by Hon. Chukwuma Onyema at Wednesday plenary.
He said: “The House notes Ogwu Ikpele in Anambra State with huge deposit of crude oil shares boundary with Omoku, Okpai and Uchi in Rivers State; “Aware that unknown to the people of Ogwu Ikpele, Sterling Global Oil Exploration and Energy Company is operating in their lands without Environmental Impact Assessment, Baseline Survey, Social- Economic Impact Assessment and Corporate Social Responsibility
“Concerned that the activities of the oil company are causing environmental, air and water Pollution in the area, thereby resulting in outbreak of respiratory tract infections, cholera, water borne diseases, costal erosion and destruction of the ecosystem
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