The House of Representatives Committee on Environment has invited the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s Eighteen Operating Ltd to appear before it on March 4.
Chairman of the Committee, Julius Pondi, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the invite followed the inability of NNPC Eighteen Operating Ltd to appear on February 18.
The committee had received a petition from relevant stakeholders on the environmental degradation alongside pollution of Buguma and Degema areas of Rivers by oil drilling activities.
9News Nigeria recalls that the committee received formal complaint against NNPC Eighteen Operating Ltd, on the fire and oil spill incident in Buguma, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State.
The committee had also invited relevant stakeholders and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) to deliberate on the complaints by Bukuma community in Rivers.
The community had alleged the refusal of NNPC to implement a 2021 court judgement on grouping of the oil communities into clusters for development purposes.
