Ogoni youth challenge arranged resumption of oil discovery in their community

Several Ogoni people in Rivers State, on Wednesday, organized a quiet show and incapacitated business exercises at the workplace of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in Port Harcourt, the Rivers States capital.

The dissidents, who included individuals from a gathering known as the Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates (KSA), and different inhabitants of Ogoni, obstructed the passage to the premises of NNPC, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), requesting that the arranged resumption of oil investigation in Ogoniland ought to be ceased.

Talking while at the same time giving a duplicate of request of for the Group Managing Director (GMD) of NNPC, Dr. Maitanti Baru, pioneer of the dissent and Coordinator of KSA, Chief. Gani Topba, said the general population turned out in their numbers to indicate add up to dismissal of the arranged oil investigation in their property.

Topba censured the charged issuance of permit to work OML11 to one Robo Michael Limited to continue investigation in Ogoniland, and required the sack of the NNPC GMD for the endeavor to touch off crisp emergency in Ogoni.

He stated: "The Ogoni individuals have turned out in their numbers to enroll their case to the legislature on how their case can be settled. In 2012, NNPC had concurrence with Shell on OML11 and Shell said they have exchanged OML11 permit to NNPC.

"In 2017, NNPC through NPDC, issued a legitimate permit to Robo Michael and we have composed Senate, House of Representatives, Security offices and we need that choice to be switched before January 4, 2018.


"On the off chance that they don't do it, we will prepare our kin to NNPC Towers, in Abuja, for challenge with the goal that universal group will know we are quiet in our fomentations. Twenty years back, our kin stopped Shell from Ogoni. However, today, NNPC, Shell and Robo Michael need to go through the indirect access to continue operation in Ogoniland. It won't work.

"We are requesting that the permit issued to Robo Michael to work OML11 ought to be recovered. We need President Muhammadu Buhari to renounce Shell permit on OML11. He ought to likewise sack the NNPC GMD in light of the fact that he has done what is fit for touching off emergency in Ogoni", Topba pushed.