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Centre demands clean up, revamp of Niger Delta communities

News & Press Monday Osasah, Apr 22, 2025

A non-government organisation, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) has demanded a comprehensive clean up of oil impacted communities, and called for revamping of the ecosystem in Niger Delta region.

Centre demands clean up, revamp of Niger Delta communities

The Centre also stated that the region has generated immense revenue for Nigeria, and its people have faced environmental devastation, loss of livelihoods, destruction of lives and property, leading to air pollution, water, and soil.

Its Executive Director, Monday Osasah, in a media parley in Abuja, regretted that over six decades, the region that was once fertile and beaming with life has endured the heavy burden of crude oil exploration and exploitation.

Osasah explained that it has borne the brunt of oil extraction, suffering ecological degradation, stressing, this devastation, exacerbated by a dysfunctional and compromised environmental regulatory system, has made the region one of the worst oil and gas-polluted regions in the world.

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