N/Delta ex-agitator seeks legal, strategic reforms in oil and gas sector
Niger Delta ex-agitator and the self-styled General Endurance Amagbein, has called for urgent reforms in the nation’s oil and gas sector in order to engender massive development in the oil-rich region. Amagbein, in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday by his media assistant, Alhaji Tobiah Never-Die, said the Niger Delta’s situation has reached the […]
Niger Delta ex-agitator and the self-styled General Endurance Amagbein, has called for urgent reforms in the nation’s oil and gas sector in order to engender massive development in the oil-rich region.
Amagbein, in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday by his media assistant, Alhaji Tobiah Never-Die, said the Niger Delta’s situation has reached the level where it can only be addressed through legal and strategic reforms.
He said he is very appreciative of the existing legal and strategic frameworks consciously developed by the efforts of successive governments since the era of late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua who established the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) which the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sustained.
Amagbein said he is also aware of the inroads ushered in the Niger Delta by the NDDC in the areas of youth empowerment through scholarships and other vocational trainings, provision of solar streetlights and so forth – not forgetting the Petroleum Industry Act which stipulates 3% production development plan for host and impacted communities.
However, Amagbein popularly known as Adaka Boro the second, said he is very worried about the continuous worsening conditions of living in the Niger Delta and other pitiable situations the people are faced with.
According to him, these situations are brought on by the inherent inadequacies in the existing legal and institutional framework; saying that since the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act, no significant change has been witnessed in the Niger Delta in terms of development.
He lamented that the law seems to be silent on the plight of the communities suffering from gas flaring and oil pollution brought about by pipeline sabotage and maintenance standards.
Amagbein reiterated his support for President Bola Tinubu; saying that the people of the Niger Delta are solidly behind him for sustaining peace in the region.