Niger Delta
Host Communities Berate SPDC Over GMOU
Some host communi
ties to Shell Development Company (SDPC} in Bayelsa State under the auspices of Kolokuma/Opokuma and Asaingbene Cluster Development Communities, have accused the Dutch multi-national oil firm of breaching the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) they signed with the oil company in 2014.
The cluster communities also frowned at what they termed as “insensitivity” of Daewoo E & C and Morpol Jihad, Shell’s servicing companies, operating in the areas.
In a communique made available to Journalists in Yenagoa after a meeting held at the palace of King Okpoitari Diongoli; monarch of Opokuma Kingdom in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, the host communities alleged that Shell hadfailed to remit N50miliion development fund contained in the pact.
According to them, the oil company also reneged on the payment of N768million top-up fund being two percent of the total project it was carrying out in the areas.
“No member of the cluster is an employee of the SPDC either as a management staff, middle man power or even at the lowest category.
“SPDC from every indication is not alive to its corporate social responsibility to our cluster”. they stated.
The cluster communities complained that the name “Koroama spuu I” as given to the Akaranbiri community in, Opokuma Clan manifold is of serious concern and controversial. Koroama is a community in Gbaran Clan of Yenago.a Local Government Area while Akaranbiri is a community in Opokuma Kingdom in Kolokurna/Opokuma Local Government Area.
They alleged that the oil company had not accorded their traditional institutions the required respect and support.
They said they were concerned that local content jobs that should be handled bv indigenes of the communities were awarded to non-indigenes.
The communities further expressed worry over the shoddy manner in which community workers were laid off by Daewoo without recourse to Nigerian Labour laws, stressing that the case of one Mr Bright Egbe was totally unacceptable.
The KolokumajOpokuma and Asaingbene cluster communities therefore urged Shell and its servicing companies to live up to the spirit and letter of the GMoU and their corporate social responsibility.
Efforis to get the reaction of Shell proved abortive as its Corporate Media Relations Manager, Mr Precious Okolobo, could not answer calls placed to his mobile phone at press time.
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