Reps Call For More Synergy To Address Oil Spillage [Video]

The Federal Ministry of Environment has identified the absence of synergy between and among agencies of government working to tame oil spills.

This comes on a day lawmakers hand the managements of Agip Oil Company, now Oando PLC and Aiteo, seven days to appear before their investigative Committee or risk arrest.

Oil spillage remains a major problem in Nigeria’s oil rich states and host communities are the worse for it..

The joint committee on Environment, Petroleum Resources Midstream and Upstream resumes its investigative hearing on environmental damage as a result of oil spill.

After two invitations, members are peeved that the Chief Executive Officers of Oando Plc and Aiteo have failed to show up.

They are also unhappy that the Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Zubaida Umar, has yet to appear before them in person after several invitations.

Then comes a motion for another invitation after which the …