You marginalized Itsekiri in the recent 57 Marginal Fields offer, ICC accuses FG

The Itsekiri Consultative Congress, ICC, has accused the Federal Government of


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You marginalized Itsekiri in the recent 57 Marginal Fields offer, ICC accuses FG
President Muhammadu Buhari


The Itsekiri Consultative Congress, ICC, has accused the Federal Government of marginalizing Itsekiri Ethnic Nationality in the recently announced 57 Marginal Fields, offered by the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, warning: “We cannot continue to sit down and watch non-indigenes being offered Oil Mining Licenses in our homeland, when we have capable Itsekiri Sons & Daughters, whose firms are qualified but will be denied such licenses by the ethno-centric biases of the DPR.”  

                                                        

The ICC in a statement released today, Tuesday June 16, through its National Publicity Secretary, Edema Collins Oritsetimeyin, emphasized: “We wish to put it on record that the Itsekiri Ethnic Nationality has been grossly marginalized in the bid offer since the discovery of Oil in our Homeland over 60 years ago.

                                                

“Despite huge environment hazards, poor sanitary conditions, lack of health care facility, and total lack of Federal Presence in any of the Itsekiri Host Communities, the Itsekiri Nation has been the most peaceful in the Niger Delta, contributing over 28% of Nigeria's Oil & Gas.

                                                                                                          

“We therefore wish to use this opportunity to call on the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to halt the current process of bids for the 57 Marginal Fields and come up with new modalities, where Competent companies owned by Itsekiri Sons & Daughters can be given "right of first refusal: on fields in our homeland before being thrown open to other indegenous firms. 

 

“This is because our people will take issues of environmental pollution and degradation much more serious.

 

“The Federal Government is hereby advised to shelve the current process in the interest of continuous peace in the Niger Delta especially Itsekiri homeland.”


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