- Ex-Ghanaian leader, others to serve as members
Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, Wednesday inaugurated a 10-member state Commission of Inquiry on Environmental Degradation to be chaired by the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu.
The governor said the commission, which is comprised of Nigerian and foreign scholars and experts in various fields, had a nine-point terms of reference.
He added that the points included to investigate the environmental, health, socio-economic, cultural and human damage caused by operations of both local and multinational oil companies.
Dickson charged the commission to analyse the legislations governing the operations of multinational oil companies in Bayelsa State and Nigeria as well as establish a set of recommendations that would lead to the development of a new legal framework that ensures accountability.
The governor said the state had suffered vast…
