The Bayelsa government...directed the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, to clean up over 1,000 spill sites in the state before December 31, 2015...[In a] letter by the state commissioner for Environment, Iniruo Wills, [the governemnt noted that] less than 20 out of over 800 spills that occurred in 2014 have been remediated and cleaned...[and]...government was dismayed by the alarming frequency of spills from oil fields...[Reports note that]..out of the over 200 spill incidents so far recorded in 2015, no efforts were being made to clean and remediate the sites...In response, Filipo Cotalini, the spokesman of Eni – the parent company of Agip – said in an email on Monday [22 September 2015] that the company would respond in due course.