‘Environmental destruction in Niger Delta terrible’

Environmental rights activist, Patrick Naagbanton, says there is still a long and terrible record of environmental destruction and human rights violation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s oil and gas-producing region.

Naagbanton, an Ogoni, who operates mainly in the mangrove forests, told our correspondent at Nchia-Eleme in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, that the gross level of environmental degradation caused by oil exploration and extraction in the oil region has gone unchecked for about 50 years.

Daily Independent