A group, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) says it has confirmed a fresh crude oil spillage on a pipeline right of way belonging to Renaissance Africa Energy Ltd in Ikata community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. 

The group said the spillage which was noticed in the afternoon of Friday, August 22, was reported by its members under the auspices of the One Million Youth Volunteers Network of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters in the Niger Delta as well as the Crude Oil Spill Alert System (COSAS) in the community.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt by its Executive Director, Dr. Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, the Centre said the spillage, suspected to be an alleged act of sabotage (third party interference), pending confirmation by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), was recorded on the 14-inch Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline right of way owned and operated by Renaissance. 

The organisation recalled that this is the second spill on the same pipeline right of way in Ikata community within the last three months, following an earlier spillage confirmed and reported by the organisation in a statement on May 5, 2025.

This latest crude oil spill  comes barely three weeks after an oil spill occurred in Kpean Community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State in which a joint investigation visit carried out by NOSDRA confirmed to be due to equipment failure. 

The group called on NOSDRA to carry out a joint investigation visit (JIV) to this new oil spill site in Ikata community to determine the actual cause of the spillage and invoke the relevant sections of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021, to hold the alleged perpetrators accountable.