By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa-Barely five days after the clamping of an oil spill point that ravaged Kalaba community in the Okordia clan of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, indigenes of the community, have again raised alarm over the discovery of three more crude oil spills from pipelines owned by Agip.

The sites of oil spillages, according to the natives, were discovered few days after the officials of Agip clamped the spill point, that occurred earlier this month.

Confirming the discoveries to newsmen, yesterday, in Yenagoa, Paramount Ruler of Kalaba Community, Chief Idoniboye Nwalia, spokesman of the youth organisation, Mr. Oburo Samuel and the immediate past Chairman of the Community Development Committee, CDC, warned that there was need for quick response as the spillage was moving towards the river used by the community.

According to Samuel, the spills occurred at a ruptured part of the Agip pipelines across the Taylor Creeks and two others behind the community.

He said: “This is the fourth spill in the community within three weeks. We call on Agip to find solutions to the incidents. We hope they come quick and do clean ups of the sites.”

A team of the Environmental Rights Action and Friends of the Earth, ERA/FoE, led by Alagoa Morris, which visited the sites, had also in their report observed that cause of the spill can not be confirmed but observed sharp edges of the mud within the point where the semi refined petroleum product was spewing.