Oil Spillage Ravages Sylva’s Village

This is a very sad one coming from Bayelsa State, where Timpre Sylva is in charge of affairs.

HiSociety has it that weeks after a nasty oil spillage at Fantuo, the village of the governor of the state in the Brass Local Government Area, the mess is yet to be cleared.

It was gathered that weeks back, some of the aged pipelines crisscrossing the area ruptured and spilled hundreds of litres of crude oil in the area, that people claimed, had further added to the environmental degradation.

Confident that with their son as the governor of the state, the people of Fantuo had hoped that the mess will be cleared in no time, not minding that it was not the responsibility of the state government, but the owners of the pipelines, to do so.

However, the people’s optimism was misplaced because the spillage is yet to be cleaned out.

HiSociety gathered that the area suffers constant spillages because the network of crude oil-carrying pipelines are too aged.

It was further learnt that the pipelines owned by Agip and Shell were laid in 1973.