{"id":48503,"date":"2021-04-27T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=48503"},"modified":"2021-04-27T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:35:59","slug":"deltan-community-threatens-to-shut-down-agips-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/deltan-community-threatens-to-shut-down-agips-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Deltan Community Threatens To Shut Down Agip\u2019s Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The people of Idheze Community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, have threatened to shut down the operations of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC)\u00a0\u00a0in the community due to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the company\u2019s gross neglect in past nine years.<\/p>\n

Rising from a two-day annual mini-conference held from Thursday\u00a0\u00a0April 22 to Friday April 23,\u00a0\u00a02020,\u00a0\u00a0the community said it had tolerated the neglect and ill-treatment by NAOC for too long and was now making final arrangements for total occupation of the company\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Idheze Community Development Union(ICDU), Mr. Emmanuel Ofiemo, said in a statement that NAOC had shown no sign of a good\u00a0\u00a0corporate socially responsible organisation in its operations in the community, noting that the oil producing firm had not only neglected\u00a0\u00a0the community but had refused to resolve many complaints\u00a0\u00a0over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never seen a company that is so deficient in corporate social responsible and\u00a0\u00a0deliberately fuel crisis. For instance, the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Idheze and NAOC expired over nine years ago. The MoU is the documents that clearly\u00a0\u00a0spells out how the company can provide physical infrastructure among others. But the company had refused to renew the expired MoU under the guise of migrating to Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU). We have held several meetings with the company that had yielded no fruits. It very obvious that NAOC is not ready to develop our community but continues to\u00a0\u00a0take crude oil and gas from our land, which has negatively impacted us,\u201d Ofiemo said.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that while Idheze Community had reported the development to the Delta State Government, NAOC also ignored efforts by the government to intervene.<\/p>

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\u201cIt is very obvious that NAOC is not ready to listen to us despite our peaceful disposition. Hence, we have decided to shut down their operations until they accede to all our demands. For instance, NAOC\u00a0\u00a0must compensate the Idheze Community for the nine years it had\u00a0\u00a0operated without MoU. It must pay\u00a0\u00a0for the lands it acquired years ago for its operations. It must provide employment for our people and it must pay all outstanding debts owed to contractors for jobs done since 2018, 2019 and 2020. The community is only making final consultations with relevant government\u2019s agencies\u00a0\u00a0because we believe in sustaining the peaceful environment in our community. After these consultations, we shall occupy NAOC facilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ofiemo noted that despite that fact the\u00a0\u00a0Idheze contributes over 150,000 barrels of crude oil to NAOC\u2019s production, the company had only repaid the community with \u201cno single project and no employment for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PRO\u00a0\u00a0explained that the community embarked on a peaceful protest in\u00a0\u00a0July 2020, which was suspended after NAOC promised to look into their complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201cNAOC had pleaded that we suspend the protest, explaining that the economic lockdown caused by Covid-19 pandemic was affecting their operations. They promise to find solutions to our complaints. But almost a year after, nothing has been done. Therefore, we have resolved to shut down their operations until NAOC accede to every of our requests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The people of Idheze Community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, have threatened to shut down the operations of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC)\u00a0\u00a0in the community due to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the company\u2019s gross neglect in past nine years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[8535,8534],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-48503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-idheze-community-in-isoko-south-local-government-area","tag-nigeria-agip-oil-company-limited-naoc"],"yoast_head":"\nDeltan Community Threatens To Shut Down Agip\u2019s Operations - 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