 Now host communities of oil and gas companies have been tasked to bring long-term abuse and neglect in the Niger Delta to an end through sustained environmental monitoring and advocacy. Executive Director of Health and Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, Nemo Basi urged the communities to ensure that economic interest of investors did not threaten the environment. It stressed the need to raise community activists who will defend the ecosystem from degradation and pollution. Due to severe devastation of the ecosystem and the effect on people of oil-producing communities in river states, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, is championing advocacy against environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. In that capacity, HOMEF brought together people from Kediri, Po, Goi and Moho communities in the state to share information on the usefulness of community monitoring organized in an advocacy. During his address to the participants, the director of HOMEF, Nemo Basi, stressed the need to protect the environment from further pollution. He said the aims is to empower community members to be ready to hold environmental destroyers accountable for any damage done. This training is meant to equip the community people, not just to see things and walk away, but when they see things, they will take notes. They have to become citizen journalists to report on what is going on in their communities. We also train them on community organizing and solidarity building. Introducing them to continental networks of fishers, because these are people who used to fish, but can't fish anymore. HOMEF project lead on networking and alliances, Steven Nuduwari, urged the people to learn to task political leaders who approached them for votes to begin to take issues of environmental pollution seriously. Some community members share their experiences on what they suffer from the destroyed environment and loss of means of livelihoods. Today, if you plant yam or cassava and you don't have fertilizer and other chemicals to make it do well, you don't get anything out of it, that is to say that the land is no longer better. Or a party life has been destroyed, just the environmental system was changed. And if you go to the clinic, even as I tell you, to camp, it's very, very crucial. The major sickness you see is typhoid, you talk of malaria, you talk of kidney problem, you talk of demand problem, or is as a result of oil pollution. Correspondents recalled that Kediri community with about 54 oil wells had a major oil spill on the 12th of April 2009, went far from Bomo manifold, burned and spread to neighboring Goi and Moho communities, which destroyed people's means of livelihoods.