NASS, oil coys working against Niger Delta, Community leader

The National Assembly has been accused of conniving with multinational oil companies to frustrate federal government’s development plan for the Niger Delta.

Making the allegation recently was the chairman of the of the Ugborodo Administrative Committee, Jolomi Metseagharun who asserted that soon the people of Ugborodo would be pushed to stage a peaceful protest to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja if the lawmakers continue to work against the interest of the people of the region.

The chairman, whose team was recently inaugurated in the Ikpere Hall, Ode-Ugborodo, also frowned at the activities of oil multinational corporations which he accused of circumventing the federal government’s directive that they relocate their headquarters to their areas of operation in the Niger Delta.

Jolomi stated that the National Assembly has been plotting to make the directive ineffective, through the rejection of a motion moved on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of the directive.

He alleged that the oil and gas companies are desirous of perpetually devastating, degrading and annihilating the region and its people.

“These oil multinationals are gravely responsible for the backwardness and underdevelopment of the Niger Delta region.

“Virtually all the CLOs and public affairs managers of these oil multinationals operating in the Niger Delta region are not from their areas of operation,” he submitted.