"25% OF MY PEOPLE ARE BLIND"- HRH C.E. Collins

Imagine living in a community where the water is acidic, with PH value 4.8? Imagine living in a land and breathing an air with as low as 4.0 as its pH? Imagine living in a community which produces about 10,000 barrels of oil daily, amidst gas, and yet you can't afford a three square meal? What do you think your life would be?
Imagine a community with huge oil corporations which make millions of dollars daily from your land, and you don't benefit a dime from it? Imagine a community absent with the basic social amenities like electricity and water absent? Imagine a situation where about 25% of the people in your community have eye defects or are blind? How gross and frustrating, would life be for you in that community?

IZOMBE: A SCARY EXPERIENCE "Addax Must Go" - Izombe Community Insists by OKIM-ALOBI OYAMA

I feel so exasperated and sympathetic at the low standard of livelihood, the people of Izombe are experiencing day after day, despite their natural endowments. Izombe is an autonomous community consisting of four other communities,  Umunwama, Obeabor, Aborsi and Ndeuloukwu and is located in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. She is so blessed with rich natural resources like huge deposits of crude oil and four times more gas deposits than oil. As a result of the large quantities of crude oil and gas, it has attracted some multinational oil corporations like Ashland Oil who came in 1974 (now Sinopec/Addax Petroleum Development Company) and Chevron, which operates in this region.