On as 14 days ultimatum for FG expires
The prevailing peace in Delta State, is being threatened as Urhobo youths in Niger Delta, have concluded plans to shutdown all oil facilities in Urhobo land over alleged neglect and marginalization on the proposed sale of the 57 marginal fields by Department of Petroleum Resources.
Urhobo youths leaders on Thursday in Ovvwian, in Udu Local Government Area, near Warri, said, the decision to execute their earlier threat was as a result of the expiration of the ultimatum handed down to the Federal Government.
Olorogun Ese Kakor, President, Campaign for the Economic Survival of Urhobo Nation (CATESUN) and other leaders of the group , said no going back in their earlier resolve to shutdown of operations of multinational oil companies in Urhobo nation.
Kakor added that the Federal Government failed to meet up with their demands before the ultimatum expired last Monday.
The group had earlier handed down a 14 days ultimatum to shutdown oil and gas operations in their area if the Federal Government fails to initiate fresh process of ceding out the 57 marginal oil field and address issues of gross marginalization of oil multinationals a the federal government against the Urhobo people.
It said, their call for fresh ceding process of the 57 Marginal Oil Field was necessitated by illegal moves by the Minister for State for Petroleum Resources, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Director General of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), to exclude Urhobo people from the process.
It emphasized that a new process will give competent Urhobo men and women the opportunity to participate in oil and gas activities fairly, having “endured injustice, since the discovery of crude oil in their lands.
“We are not going back on our threat to shutdown operations of International Oil Companies in Urhobo nation, enough of the marginalization”, they queried.
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