Etche Communities Laud SPDC Over GMoU

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has been commended for maintaining its own part of agreement in the General Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) entered with its host communities in Igboh cluster of Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The chairman of Etche Cluster One Development Foundation, Hon Stanley Amaechi made the commendation in his office in Igboh Etche Local Government Area of the state, as part of activities marking his two years in office as the chairman of the cluster.
Hon Amaechi averred that the SPDC as a company had done much for the people of the area with regard to the GMoU it entered with host communities in the area.
According to him, the company’s corporate social responsibility to its host communities in the area was the best among other companies operating in the area, adding that the reason for which the cluster was founded in 2013 had not been violated by both SPDC and the benefiting communities.
He listed the provision of financial grants to cooperatives, installation of three 500KVA transformers, scholarship and payment of bursary, skills acquisition programmes, construction of five blocks and ten units of one bedroom flat mini estate with functional bore holes and access road as well as 5.2km Electricity Extension projects as part of his achievements in office.
The Igboh cluster one chairman expressed gratitude to the Onye Ishi Ala I of Igboh kingdom, Eze Samuel Amaechi for his peaceful reign which facilitated the actualisation of the various projects within two years.
Hon Amaechi used the opportunity to call on other multinational companies, Nigeria Agip Oil Company and Indoroma company operating in the area to emulate the SPDC and join hands with them to bring development to the area.
He appealed to both the state and federal government to as a matter of urgency commence the reconstruction of the Igboh roads to alleviate the suffering of the people.