The National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC, has assured the Niger Delta region that it will conclude
investigation into alleged environmental pollution and human right abuses in
the areas.
The Acting Executive Secretary of
the commission, Oti Ovrawah, gave this assurance in Abuja yesterday when the
Akwa Ibom Oil Producing Community Development Network, AKIPCON, and the Niger Delta Consolidated Forum, NDCF,
led by Ufot Phenson, visited her.
Ovrawah said that the commission had
not given up its quest to ensure that the environmental rights of people living
in the region were protected.
Earlier, Phenson who is the
President General of AKIPCON, commended the efforts of the NHRC for
inaugurating the Special Investigation Panel on Oil Spill and Environmental
Degradation.
HE explained that both the NDCF and
AKIPCON in the past 10 years had been at the forefront of ensuring adequate
compensation for losses suffered from hazardous effects of hydrocarbon
pollutions caused by activities of oil and gas companies in the region.
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