The need to as much as possible reduce the effects of oil exploration and exploitation on the lives of people of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has not only become imperative but urgent.
Against this backdrop, the member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo, has called for the promotion of Green-blue economic development footprints to secure the long awaited carbon neutral future for children of the depraved Niger Delta Region.
He made the call through’ THE DAGOGO INITIATIVE’, an organization at the forefront of rewriting the sorry narrative of the Niger Delta environment while seeking an end to the devastation.
The Federal Lawmaker who lamented the unending adverse environmental pollution and exploration that have rendered the Niger Delta region of Nigeria unhealthy for its inhabitants. also posited that the hazards emitting from the environment have become so incessant’ and with no solution in sight such that the people have hopelessly accepted it as a way of life even though it has been reputed to be the cause of varying degrees of health challenges and deaths in the oil rich Niger Delta region.
Calling for Biodiversity’, he described it as apt as it encapsulates what the Niger Deltans are experiencing adding that the people’s lives, species of freshwater, marine animals, as well as their habitats are being affected. while stressing the need to draw the attention of the world to the suffocating health conditions of the inhabitants of the region.
“As custodians of the largest oil rich wetland in the world, the Niger Delta region had long been debated, documented and discarded by exploitative oil explorations that endorsed and enforced the incessant pollution of our riparian heritage while the people of the creeks sit in limbo, idling away in hopelessness, huddled together in socio-economic inequalities as the treasure of our natural habitats is robbed by the Greenhouse flares of big oil interest”, he added..
