Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha Jonah (retd), has approached Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to lead an integrity test on its pipelines in the Niger Delta district.

The deputy governor criticized what he portrayed as the recurrence of oil spillages from the organization's tasks, and in addition the way that a decent number of its channels were laid quite a while back and may have experienced erosion.

He stated this at one of the spillage sites, weekend, when he undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the extent of damage to the environment, following the recent eruption of the SPDC River Ramos pipeline that resulted in the spillage of crude oil into the river that affected Aghoro community and others in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state.

Jonah also berated SPDC for the delay in carrying out remediation activities and provision of relief materials, in order to mitigate the sufferings of the people in the affected communities, considering the fact that the oil spillage occurred about a month ago.

Noting the usual joint investigation exercise would be carried out to ascertain the cause of the spillage, the deputy governor advised SPDC to ensure that all the relevant parties were involved in the exercise.

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