"Strange Ailments in N-Delta: ‘Oil Pollution Deforming, Killing Ogoni Babies’" - Vanguard

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Vanguard Nigeria reports that "women are delivering deformed babies and turning barren in the region because of oil pollution...The United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, commissioned by the Federal Government in its report on Ogoniland, and released August, 2011, stated emphatically that the only source of drinking water for the people had been contaminated and they should no longer drink it, not even rain water or eat fish from the river. “Everyone who has consumed water from contaminated sources should be requested to undertake a comprehensive medical examination by physicians knowledgeable about the possible adverse health effects of the hydrocarbons detected,” the report added. “It is clear from UNEP’s field observations and scientific investigations that oil contamination in Ogoniland is widespread and severely impacting many components of the environment. The Ogoni people live with this pollution every minute of every day, 365 days a year..."

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/strange-ailments-n-delta-oil-pollution-deforming-killing-ogoni-babies/