Mazaunan jihar Akwa Ibom sun koka bellen dama sakamakon kofa mai da kamfanin Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) ya gina a shekarun 1950. Wani tawagar daga al’ummomin da ake shafar muhalli a jihar sun yi ikirarin cewa kofa mai waɗanda aka kofa sun zama barazana ga al’ummar yankin.
A lokacin da suke zaune a Uyo, babban birnin jihar ranar Juma’a, wajen ziyarar maraba ga shugabannin A’Ibom Oil Producing Community Development Network (AKPICON), tawagar ta bayyana cewa kofa mai waɗanda aka kofa sun lalataye filayen noma na al’ummar yankin, kuma sun zama barazana da za ta iya tashi a kowace lokaci.
Akpan Stephen, wani mazaunin Nsit-Ubuim Local Government da kuma mamba na tawagar, wanda ya ce ya yi aiki da ExxonMobil shekaru da dama, ya nuna damuwarsa game da barazanar da al’ummomin ke fuskanta. “Akwai matsin lamba mai yawa karkashin kofa mai waɗanda aka gina a shekarun 1950, kuma hadarin ya ke sa su lalace, haka kuma su ke rage ƙarfin kofa mai waɗanda aka kofa, don haka ina zama bom ɗin lokaci mai jiran faruwa”, in ji Stephen.
Stephen ya kuma kira kamfanin SPDC da ya biya diyyar ga ‘yan asalin yankin wadanda muhallinsu ya lalace sakamakon ayyukan hakar mai na shekaru da dama.
Namonso Nya, wani mazaunin Ikono Local Government, ya nuna cewa kofa mai waɗanda aka kofa sun lalataye muhallin, haka kuma ba a samun amfanin noma a yankin. “Mazaunan al’ummomin inda aka kofa kofa mai waɗanda ke, suna fama, zuwa al’ummomin, babu abin da yake girma. SPDC ya zo ya biya diyyar ga mutanen, ta shafa rayuwa, yawancin cututtukan da muke fama a yau – kansa, matsalar jini – saboda haka mai ne”, in ji Nya.
A da yake magana, shugaban tawagar, Daniel Akpan, ya bayyana cewa sun zo don godewa shugabannin AKPICON saboda jagorantar yaki don muhalli mai tsabta da aminci a jihar. Amsar da shugaban AKPICON, Dr Ufot Phenson, ya bayar, ya goda tawagar saboda aika sinyaya ga SPDC cewa babu abin da yake daidai a al’ummomin yankin, ya yi alkawarin cewa ƙungiyarsa za ta ci gaba da yaki don biyan diyyar ga al’ummomin da aka shafa.
Jaridar ta kawo cewa, jarumawar da aka yi wa kamfanin SPDC game da hali hi ba ta yi nasara ba lokacin da aka kammala rahoton.
