Elders and Youths of the Brass Kingdom in Bayelsa state have written to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NOAC) over the alleged delay in the remediation and compensation for the over 2.6billion barrel of toxic waste dumped into the Brass canal due to the operational activities of the company in the area.
The Brass elders said repeated promises and failures have been made by Agip management to the Bayelsa state government and its host communities in Brass local government,.
The elders complained that continued annual discharge of the over 150,000 barrels of toxic waste by Italian oil giant into the brass river through the canal has contaminated soil, ground waters and air quality of the area and degraded the health and livelihood of the people of brass kingdom.
The leaders of the Brass Kingdom, through their legal counsel, Iniruo Wills and Dr. Dickson E.Omukoro of the Ntephe, Smith and Wills law chambers, in a letter to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company(NAOC), pointed out that the letter is a reminder to the company for the desperate need for proper remediation of ecological damage caused by the continual discharge of toxic waste at brass terminal every day for 48 years.
