14 host communities in Delta State have pleaded with the federal authorities to revoke the licenses of the 2 firms working the OML 42, over perceived refusal to implement the Petroleum Trade Act, (PIA) and different points because it pertains to the native content material legislation.
The businesses work with the Nigeria Exploration Petroleum Restricted, NEPL, and NECONDE Vitality Restricted.
The aggrieved Delta host communities made the demand in an open letter addressed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The letter dated December 18, 2023 and signed by the Chairman, Mr Windfree Atemubaghan, Public Relations Officer, PRO, Oyimi Samson, Secretary-Normal, Mr. Francis Ayeku and Treasurer, Amb Billy Ekele, for OML/Kantu 42 communities discussion board averred inter-alia:
Additionally they appealed to state and federal governments to shortly come to their help to avoid wasting the souls of the oil producing host communities of OML 42.
“We want to additional state that regardless of the large manufacturing to the nationwide treasury of Nigeria, the JV operators of OML 42, for the reason that divestment of this asset to the JV companions (previously NPDC) and now NEPL/ Neconde Vitality Restricted, has failed the host communities woefully within the following areas of oil and fuel operation within the Niger Delta area, because it have an effect on the OMI 42 host communities.
“The operators as Nigerian firms by legislation, is anticipated to uphold the enforcement and implementation of the legal guidelines of native content material act, however the operators are usually not in any type encouraging indigenous distributors to construct capability, relatively secretly giving out contracts meant for neighborhood distributors to their mates and associates outdoors the host communities.
“It’s the constitutional accountability of operators of oil and fuel firms in anyplace on this planet to fulfill as much as the social cooperate tasks to their host communities. However these operators, have failed within the aforementioned tasks by not creating the human capital and infrastructural wants of our host communities.
“The operators of the OML 42 NEPL AND NECONDE Vitality ltd JV) are utilizing barging to load crude oil in among the six circulation stations in OML 42 and provide to mom vessels within the Atlantic Ocean, thereby inflicting environmental air pollution on the soul of the host communities, this has additional broken all the eco system of the marine financial system, making it troublesome for the inhabitants to dwell with their God-given pure occupation.
“The PIA supplies for improvement of host communities in human and capital infrastructures, because of the oil and fuel exploration and exploitation actions, which injury the surroundings the place oil and fuel is being exploited.”