Environmental group demands independent probe into Abia pipeline explosion

The Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD Nigeria, has demanded an autarkic and technological probe into the caller crude lipid pipeline detonation successful the Owaza assemblage of Ukwa West LGA of Abia State, which destroyed farms, houses and livestock.

According the FENRAD, the incidental has further exposed the sedate environmental, nationalist wellness and information risks posed by Nigeria’s aging lipid and state infrastructure.

FENRAD’s demands were contained successful a connection released on Saturday by its Executive Director, Nelson Nnanna Nwafor.

The radical called for the contiguous constitution of a Joint Investigation Visit, JIV, involving representatives of the Federal Ministry of Environment, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, the Abia State Ministry of Environment and the pipeline operator, assemblage representatives, autarkic biology experts, and civilian nine organizations.

“Such a Joint Investigation Visit is captious to found the precise origin of the explosion, find the grade of biology contamination, measure socio-economic impacts connected affected communities, and urge due remediation and compensation measures,” the connection said.

FENRAD maintained that host  communities should not proceed to bear...