By
Emmanuel Ken
Okuntu Community in Ogulagha Kingdom, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, has cried out loudly, lamenting the total and grave danger on the spread of the deadly and poisonous chemicals by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has ravaged and destroyed their only source of livelihood, which is fishing.
While speaking to Creek News, the Youth President of Okuntu Community, Comr. Itigbri Reyners , said Okuntu Community river is now a hotbed of floating fishes,as dead fishes are seen littered everywhere at the seashore.
This is not good for the community and her people. Fishing is the only source of our livelihood, and now the water is polluted and contaminated.
Fishes just die at will, and become poisonous to eat. SPDC should immidiately cleanup the waters or face legal action for breaching environmental laws. Because this is a special way of keeping us into perpetual poverty, squalor and penury, and we will not take it, He said.
However, he also warn everyone not to eat those fishes killed by the acidic chemicals, saying that it can led to one's untimely death, as the poisonous chemicals are harmful to humans as well when taken.
He hampered on the difference of the fish saying, when such fishes are smoked, they are different from the normal fish. The fishes that died through the acidic chemicals has white colour when smoked. While the normal fish has brown colour when smoked(meaning the deadly chemical as drained all blood from the fish as there is no nutrient left in them ,which makes it unhealthy and harmful to humans).
Also present with the Youth President at the time of filing this report was the Okuntu Youth Secretary General, Comr. Ologboro Ebimobowei
However, Creek News learnt that, the spread of this dangerous acidic chemicals in the waters by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has gone viral and has kept many fish farmers to stay at home with no hope of feeding their families.
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