28 oil communities threaten to shutdown ND-Western operations in OML34

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(Nigeria) No fewer than 28 host communities in OML34, Delta State, Thursday, issued a 5-day ultimatum to ND-Western E&P Company and NNPC E&P Limited, to shutdown there operations of over the companies continued failure and refusal to fulfill the mandatory obligations to the aggrieved host communities.

The notice for peaceful protest and shut down of operations was contained in a letter to the Managing Director of NNPC E&P Limited and Chief Operating Officer of ND-Western dated November 1, 2022.

The letter was by the chairmen and president generals of the 28 host communities, which include Michael Oghenegueke, Pastor Moses Bekaren, Rufus Onokurefe, Francis Uzoh, Nuwawa Alledy,  Okorodudu Solomon and 22 others.

They said: "We are demanding for payment of outstanding penalty fines due the 28 host communities from the expired GMoU of January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019. Also, the payment of penalty fine of N6,250,000 representing five percent of the Project Fund for the belated payment of the 2nd tranche of 2022, recently paid in the fourth week of October 2022, after threee months of grace from January 1 to September 30, 2022, as provided for in the relevant GMoU documents.

"We are demanding payment of the accumulated scholarship arrears spanning through a period of four years, alternatively, the company should provide proof of awardees duly paid and records of those outstanding.

"The company has not released forms for new awards of scholarship to any of the 28 host communities and has not also awarded any scholarship in OML34 in the past three consecutive years. More so, the company has not paid the OML34 project funds to Ughevwughe, Iwhrekreka and Otor-Edo communities for the past six years."

The communities also demanding the immediate commencement of the company's skill acquisition programme for participants nominated by communities long ago, and commencement of training of persons nominated for the GMoU capacity building programme.


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