Aginejuone to Conoil: Stick to the law, avoid being hoodwinked by the so-called stakeholders

The Secretary to OML 150 Communities Consultative Forum, Oritseweyinmi Emmanuel Agbonekuya Aginejuone, has described OML 150 Host / Impacted Communities ' Stakeholders’ retention of Host Communities Development Trustees Fund, HCDTF led by Comrade Monday Agbeyi and its purported dissolution of OML 150 Communities Forum, as “ignorance displayed by the said group of hustlers.”

Aginejuone, in an electronic statement sent to Fresh Angle International, this morning, Tuesday September 10, said Omadino Community, as a critical stakeholder in the said OML 150 field, was not aware of any meeting where such resolution was reached.

The statement, noted inter-alia: “My attention had been drawn to a purported resolution reached by a group of persons parading themselves as the OML 150 Host/Impacted communities Stakeholder, and the magnitude of ignorance displayed by the said group of hustlers. One salient and inalienable fact remains that ignorance to the law has never been, and will never be an excuse to jettison the law.

“In the said publication in reference, the so called stakeholders purport to have dissolved the OML 150  Communities CONSULTATIVE FORUM, while also affirming the questionable Host Communities Development Trust (HCDT) for the purpose of the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).

“They went further to declare who is to be chairman of that HCDT, and who is to be an impacted community, as well as who is to be negotiated with directly or indirectly and so on.

“As Secretary to the OML 150 Communities Consultative Forum, and a representative of Omadino Community in that Forum, I wish to clear the air and help the ignorance of the said group, in order that they do not proceed in misinforming the general public.

“Firstly, Omadino Community, as a critical stakeholder in the said OML 150 field, was not aware of any much meeting, neither a part of any resolution emanating from same.

“Secondly, the law takes pre-eminence over and above any form of resolution, and interestingly, we are now in the era of the PIA (Petroleum Industry Act) wherein who is or who is not within the area of operation, is/are determined by the law, and not by the whims of any group ascribing to itself the power to determine who or who have to be related with by virtue of a purported resolution.

“Thirdly, I make bold to state that the issues relating to that of the HCDT are issues of Law, and far beyond the touch of any group purporting to have authority to reach binding resolutions.

“I therefore advise Conoil to stick to the law and avoid being hoodwinked by the rantings of the so-called stakeholders group, as they lack the authority to make the sort of recommendations that they are making.

“The general public should also disregard their claims in its entirety.”

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