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RSHA Moves To Resolve Oil Firm, Community’s Dispute

The House Committee on Public complaints and Petitions of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA), has expressed displeasure over the failure of the management of the Niger Delta Petroleum Resouces Limited (NDPR), operating in Ahoada East Local Government to honour a meeting with the committee.
Chairman of the Committee, Evans Bipi, in a chat with newsmen at the assembly complex, Thursday in Port Harcourt stated that the meeting had been scheduled to resolve a dispute between NDPR and its three host communities in Ahoada East LGA.
Bipi said the community had laid a complaint against NDPR over neglect by the company and expressed worry that the company will choose not to attend a meeting of this magnitude, which he stated had been postponed to this Thursday.
He said, “it is so painful that after inviting the communities all the way from Ahoada East only for the company to disappoint, they failure the committee and the communities, based on that we decided to adjourn the sitting to Thursday 15, September , 2016, we are assured that by 15th all documents required from them will be made available to us.
We also request them to furnish the house with any other additional document they have. The same applies to the communities, so that peace and harmony will reign between the communities and the company”.
He warned however, that failure on the part of the company to show up for the meeting will leave the committee no choice than to evoke necessary powers against the management of NDPR.
On his part, the lawmaker representing the LGA in the RSHA, Edison Ehie appealed to members of the three host communities to maintain the peace, while assuring them that the House would ensure that NDPR complies with the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between the parties.
He enjoined the host communities to arm themselves with a postion paper when next they attend the meeting.