The problem is that the community people might die of hunger because their farmlands have been polluted which will kill the crops and the river where these community people get drinking water is also polluted, killing aquatic animals and making the river unfriendly for fishing. I feel that the government are not the problem but our heads that represent us are the snakes and vipers.
The main occupation of people in this area is fishing and farming. Some of them had to migrate to urban areas to survive while others took to crime. I will continue to blame the government. You don't need to give community leaders money to distribute. Clean up the mess, give the people an alternative source of income by building industries, and develop infrastructure. Financial benefits should be paid directly to the people after identity verification.
This is the reality of people living in the south south as it is called in Nigeria, they are the oil producing communities in Nigeria, yet they suffer a lot of lack. Their lands are polluted by oil, their rivers are also polluted by crude oil, I heard that clean drinking water is a problem and water has to go through different rigorous stages of purification before it is manageable for drinking. In my area in the south west we depend on borehole drilled water directly from under the earth to drink, although we treat it. Government supplied water through pipes is almost none existent.