By Emma Amaize & Akpokona Omafuaire

WARRI- Indigenes of Oviri-Olomu community in Ughelli-South Local Government Area of Delta State have called on Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to urgently clean the oil spill from its pipeline, which reportedly, ruptured in August, at Egbefa, destroying aquatic lives and farmlands.

A resident in the community, Mr. Peter Ogho, said: “The oil spill occurred in August; we wrote Shell and they sent people to the place, and since they left, they had not returned to clean it. We are worried about their silence because it is not safe for us. We saw what happened to Jesse people and we don’t want that to happen to us.

“We are calling on Shell to urgently clean up the spill and save us from the associated risks, which are well known. It is not a bad thing that oil was found in our community. Let Shell immediately clean-up the oil spill from its pipelines in our community before it catches fire.”

A fisherman, Mr. Idu Ogagarogbe, lamented, “I have lost everything to the spill, my nets and since then, life has been very hard for me and my family. We want Shell to quickly to clean up the area, since they are aware that their pipeline had ruptured.

“They knew that it is a natural occurrence, their ruptured pipeline. I just cant understand why they had refused to clean it over a month ago we drew their attention to it. My source of livelihood is gone, I need serious help,” he added.

Vanguard gathered that two persons, who went for fishing died from oil pipeline fire, about two months ago, at Kunukunuma community of Warri South-West Local Government Area because of the failure to clean up an oil spill that occurred in the area.