"Ijaw, Itsekiri communities protest oil spills in Escravos"

Women and youths from four communities, in their hundreds, on Thursday, took over the Abitiye flow station, a facility of the American oil giants, Chevron Nigeria Limited, to vent their spleens over alleged oil spills by the oil firm...The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions as ‘No compensation, no vacation of the flowstation’, CNL pay us our compensations over oil spills’, among others, even as they also chanted anti-establishment songs to drive home their demands. Narrating why the communities embarked on the peaceful protest, Kelvin Ojogun from Benikurukuru community said they were piqued by the company’s refusal to meet the agreements earlier reached on oil spills, which ravaged the communities...Corroborating him, Women Leader, Profit John, from Kenyangbene, maintained that the communities have been patient for too long and accused the oil firm of taking them for granted.