Ndemili community gets committee to liaise with oil firms

The Ndemili, Umusadege Community, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, has set up a five-man committee to liaise with all oil companies having anything to do with the community.
The committee is to act on all matters concerning and connecting the community with PAN Ocean Oil Corporation or any other prospecting oil company wishing to explore, drill or lay pipeline on any part of Ndemili community land and to negotiate, contact and reach understanding with the company before the commencement of any activity.
In in a statement signed by the Onotu-Uku of Umusadege, Chief Adoh Ugbomeh and the Secretary to the Onotu-Uku-in-Council, Chief Enebeli John and made available to newsmen, they said “any contract, negotiation or understanding by oil companies for peaceful working relationship with Ndemili, Umusadege Community must be with members of the committee”.
According to the statement, “Ndemili community is an amiable host community which is willing to work with all companies and individuals on terms as seem appropriate between the company and the committee on behalf of the community.”
They stated that the setting up of the committee was to ensure that there was due process to forestall possible break done of law and order if such was not done.
The committee has Dr Festus Ada as chairman; and Barrister Sunday Ebeifenadi as secretary and Legal Adviser; Mr George Nzei as member; Chief Anthony Osumili as member; and a representative of the youths as member.

Ndokwa decries neglect by NDDC

The Ndokwa National Union, an umbrella body of the Ukwuani speaking people of Delta State has decried the neglect of their people in the distribution of  amenities in the Niger-Delta region by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The group which made this declaration over the week, noted in dismay that stakeholders of the NDDC were all invited to a summit that would chat a new course for the people in the region but the Ndokwa people were inadvertently excluded  without reason.
A release by the groups National President, Pharm Paul Enebeli noted in dismay that despite the extension of invitation to all stakeholders to the all important summit, only one Ndokwa indigene may have been invited.
Enebeli stated that the Ndokwa  nationality which comprises Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West and Ukwnani are oil producing with several oil companies engaged in oil production with its attendant negative consequence on the lives and livelihood of our people.
He further stated that except for the independent power plant in Okpai, there is no Federal government presence in the entire Ndokwa land despite its enormous contribution to the economic well being of the country. ‘The Agip-Okpai independent power plant he said was commissioned by the past President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005, generates 480 mega watts of electricity into the national grid yet majority of the host community remains in perpetual darkness.
The President recalled that the NDDC is a corporate body established by an act of parliament with a mandate to cater for the developmental needs of all Niger Deltans, the Ndokwa citizens, adding that it is provocative for the NDDC to organize a summit of such magnitude without carrying a major stakeholder like the Ndoka people along in its planning and execution.
The Ndokwa group however reminded President Goodluck Jonathan to commence the search for a replacement of the NDDC Commissioner from the Ndokwa extraction as its their turn to occupy the seat upon the expiration of the present commissioner’s tenure.