In pictures: Polluting Nigeria

The Rukpokwu fires took six weeks to extinguish and destroyed much farmland and a local forest.

“Our only source of drinking water, fishing stream, and farm lands covering over 300 hectares of land with aquatic life, fish nets and traps, farm crops, animals... and trees are completely destroyed,” said Paramount Ruler Chief Clifford E Enyinda of the Mgbuchi community.

Pictured left in June, an environmental clean-up of Rukpokwu had still not begun, six months after the spillage.