A community under Warri North Council, Delta State, Polobubo-Tsekelewu community has protested against pollution activities by Chevron, Shell and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).
The community spoke at an event on Wednesday commemorating World Environment Day to draw the attention of federal and state governments to their predicament.
The President-General, Polobubo-Tsekelewu Community Development Association, Dr. Bright Abulu, alleged that the oil firms are involved into polluting their erstwhile fresh water by opening up their water bodies to the Atlantic Ocean in the process of oil exploration, thereby allowing saline to contaminate the water.
Polobubo-Tsekelewu community is host to Chevron Nigeria Limited, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Nigeria Petroleum Development Company/Elcrest Nigeria limited JV (NPDC/ElCrest), Conoil Producing Nigeria Limited and Sahara Energy Services Limited.
The leaders demanded the cleaning, remediation and reparation of the environment, land reclamation and shoreline protection, canalisation and dredging of Opuama-Tsekelewu creeks, among others, by the oil firms.