Groups applaud AITEO over findings from Nembe oil spill joint investigation visit

Concerned groups, including environmental rights groups and ethnic youth leaders, have applauded the findings of the joint Investigation visit which attributed the recent oil spill witnessed in Nembe to human sabotage.

The groups which included Friends of the Environment, Nigerian Ethnic Youth Leaders Council (NEYLC), the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) and the African Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) made their positions known in their separate reactions to the findings in  statements made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday

They described the report that human sabotage caused the spill as truth based on science and facts that must be applauded by all stakeholders.

They agreed that the findings should be used to get the culprits and avert future occurrences.

The groups, in applauding AITEO which they say had been vindicated by the findings, said they entertained no fear from the beginning that being a socially responsible company, the spill could not have been caused by AITEO’s negligence.

They said the report absolved the company of any fault or wrongdoing.

According to them, “This is a vindication for AITEO. Findings have shown that the spill, as we have been suspecting from the beginning, was an act of sabotage by enemies of the Federal Government and a plot to undermine President Buhari’s Niger Delta agenda,” the NEYLC, which is made up of the Arewa Consultative Youth Movement, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Movement, Oduduwa Youths and Middle Belt Youths said in a statement signed by the Acting Head of the coalition’s secretariat, Nduka Edede Chinomso.

The Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) regretted that while experts in the industry, with their science-based evidence, believe the spill was sabotage, the Bayelsa State Government’s agents were using emotion to look for scapegoats.

“What the findings have shown us that the Bayelsa State Government had since been playing on the emotion of the people of the area and indeed all stakeholders,” the group added.

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