Saturday Independent (Nigeria): Claims to environmental degradation, highly exaggerated – Shell Manager: “The drilling manager, however, noted that people of the South-south who still create Nigeria’s wealth, had every cause to feel aggrieved that they were not befitting enough from the oil resources under their feet.”
Saturday 10 Sep 2005
By Terna Doki
As agitations by the Niger-Delta people for resource control and derivation continue to elicit arguments, an oil manager, Mr. Dondo Ahire has said that claims to environmental damage were highly exaggerated.
Ahire, a drilling manager with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said this while speaking with journalists in Gboko, Benue State.
He contended that besides the bogus claims to environmental degradation by people of the South-south, the host communities caused 60 percent of the said damage.