Because of this oil contamination, we have water contamination.
Our economic program, the Russia show program and the environmental program, these 3 destroy all the natural resources of the people.
Including fish, said fish, animal and even human.
That is economy that has left the people useless.
It destroys their means of livelihood.
There was no means of survival in the community, because the community depends on water for their economic livelihood.
There's no job because no one can fish again,
we can't begin to farm again because the oil has destroyed everywhere.
Oil is not a blessing at all. No, no it is the cause.
The oil seeps into everything.
A few years ago, Mr.
Doe, the head man in a small village, was forced to reach a dreadful decision.
He ordered all 400 inhabitants to evacuate, abandoning their homes and the lands of their ancestors.
I want to show you the water we are drinking.
You can see the water.
This is the entrance to this stream or creek.
In the past, the village women came here to collect the water,
but the wells soon filled with oil having seeped into the water table.
Look at how much oil!
You can't use it for cooking.
You can't use it for washing.
You find it difficult to stay here.
No water, no lights, nothing.
Hunger, there's no food for them to stay here and feed.
This is the entrance to my father's compound.
My grandfather's compound.
Look at it.
This is where the village was.
All this place I'm showing you is where the village was.
Banks don't benefit, then we don't benefit anything in oil spillage in this our area.
We don't benefit. We don't get anything.
The people who rich are becoming more powerful, everyday.
According to the authorities, oil has reduced life expectancy for those in the region,
to just 40 years, compared to 60 for the rest of Nigeria.
Unable to fish or cultivate the land, many farmers have headed to the slums around Port Harcourt, the largest nearby city.
The Niger Delta is slowly but surely being deserted.
But some have decided to fight back.
To survive the villagers of Krekar still fish for a living with one notable change.
That exchange that nets for buckets.
They've become sand fishermen.
It's exhausting work filling a barge takes more than 100 dives in the cold water,
bringing up 40 kilos or more each time.
Daniel, age 52, now makes his living from sand, which he sells to cement factories.
He makes just 150 euros a month.
Before we have enough fish in the water.
Well, because, of course, the situation of oil pollution in the water,
I cannot get the fish to sell if at a rate of five hundred Naira.
There's no dough for me.
I decided I'd just like to have my daily bread.
Daniel has been fishing for sand for 15 years.
He could make three times as much by running an illegal refinery, but as always refused to do so.
Some guy on the harvest?
I don't think because of the bad condition of our nation that I should forward my hand,
or tie my hand to what the man at the forefront.
That is why I choose to find myself in this condition.
The dream I have is that one day God will make this possible for his children because we are suffering.
It takes two men about three hours to fill a barge.
It's delicate work because the sand fishermen defy the laws of physics.
They deliver the sand to Port Harcourt, a hazardous trip.
If it jump as we speed then the boat will sink.
You'll lose everything;
All your work, all your fault, all your strenght, all your equipment,.
And the boat all lost.