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The leadership of Movement for Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in Niger Delta, (MOSIEND), has call on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Sole Administrator, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Okon Akwa Effiong from office. The group said, the sacking of Okon Effiong would be a step in addressing the problems bedeviling the region. National President MOSIEND, Kennedy Tonjo West, stated this in a statement made available to The Tide shortly after a two-day top management retreat organized by Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs in Abuja. Comrade Tonjo West insisted the sacking of the administrator is the position and decision of all leaders of the ethnic nationalities after a Town hall meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He noted that the call for removal of Okon Effiong was responsible for the recent protest at the Presidential Villa by the leaders of various ethnic groups in the region. According to him, the peaceful protest was aimed at drawing President Buhari’s attention to their demands – that Akwa Effiong be removed as NDDC Sole Administrator immediately Comrade West also lambasted Effiong for trying to use the retreat to cause division among leaders of the region by selecting a particular group to speak at a management meeting, because he wanted to deceive the Presidency that he had the backing of the people of the region. MOSIEND president said they had vowed not to leave Abuja until Okon Effiong was sacked, but for the timely intervention of Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who pleaded with them to exercise little patience. West maintained that, having listened to the minister, in order not to be disrespectful, called on Presidency to act on the protest letter quickly, because the group would soon return to Abuja for a substantive administrator for the Commission He insisted that the group will be revisiting the Presidency again, if new board of NDDC is not constituted soonest. MOSIEND also demanded that the federal government to set up committee to probe the financial transactions carried out by Akwa and Pondei. The statement commended the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Umana Okon Umana,for initiating the right steps towards putting the region on the right track of development and economic growth.
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta codenamed ‘Operation Delta Safe’ has said that its operations in Igbomotoru in Southern Ijaw Local Government Council of Bayelsa State were geared towards uprooting a major illegal crude oil refinery camp in the area. He further assured that the JTF would not leave any stone unturned to exterminate every illegal refinery site in the Niger Delta region to forestall the devastation and pollution of the precious environment by artisanal operators of the production of petroleum products. Commander of the outfit, Rear Admiral Aminu Hassan, who made this known while briefing journalists at its headquarters at Igbogene, Yenagoa said the camp was operated by a suspected notorious militant leader, Endurance Amaegbe. Operatives of the Operation Delta Safe had during the operation, which began on June 22 this year, arrested two suspects linked to a suspected militant leader said to own the illegal camp, and seized some items at the illegal refinery site at Igbomotoru. In recent times, Igbomotoru in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has been in the news with community leaders alleging invasion of the community by the military in collaboration with a pipeline surveillance contracting firm and a multinational oil company operating in the area, accusing the soldiers of harassment of natives and some other excesses. However, Hassan said that the allegation was not the case as the deployment had no business with the people but focused on dismantling an illegal crude oil refinery camp established in the forest of Igbomotoru by a suspected militant leader who has been intimidating communities in Southern Ijaw and other parts of Bayelsa State. Hassan said a major pipeline conveying crude oil and other critical infrastructure has been vandalised several times by the suspected militant and his group who were bent on operating the illegal refinery, a situation he described as economic sabotage to the country. Conducting Journalists round the illegal crude oil refinery camp located about 1.5kilometre off Igbomotoru main town, the Commanding Officer of 343 Artillery Regiment, Elele, Lieutenant Colonel Philemon Malgwi, who led the operation, said it began on June 22 this year to dismantle the activities of the suspected oil thieves who were also terrorising people along the waterways. He said the operation was not limited to Igbomotoru but also to other communities in Southern Ijaw such as Ikebiri, Azuzuama and adjoining creeks following tip offs, information and intelligence gathered. Journalists on the fact-finding mission at the House Boat at the Igbomotoru river, saw two suspects reported to be boys of Amaegbe, that were arrested at the illegal refinery camp at the forest. Other items seized during the operation were three fibre speed boats, a generating set, some fake military camouflage uniforms, mobile and cell phones, walkie talkies and a pistol said to be owned by Amaegbe. Meanwhile, the people of Igbomotoru had, last weekend, appealed to the federal and state governments to intervene and end an alleged ongoing invasion and harassment by military personnel and some armed youths in their communities. Traditional rulers, leaders of thought as well as youth and women leaders said at a news briefing in Yenagoa, that property of the communities were being destroyed as natives live in palpable fear following the siege by some soldiers and youth employed by a pipeline surveillance contractor for Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) with the alleged connivance of a dethroned paramount ruler of Igbomotoru. Locals also decried the alleged killings of their kinsmen by some of the armed youths. Natives of Igbomotoru 1 and 2 communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State alleged that the invasion and attack of the soldiers and armed youths working for the surveillance contracting firm, Darlon Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited at the instance of NAOC was reportedly instigated following a false report given by the dethroned paramount ruler of the community, Chief Aseimiegha Ofongo. According to them, the invasion by the military personnel and armed youths in six gun boats, a house boat and five speed boats from the contracting firm, started on June 24 as houses of locals, worship centres and other properties were destroyed. Acting Paramount Ruler of Igbomotoru One Community, Chief Goodluck Alogodei, alleged that under the dethroned paramount ruler from 1997 to 2005, about nine youths lost their lives with 51 houses razed as members of the community continue to live in fear following the unwarranted invasion and attacks. A Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Festus Emiri, who hails from Igbomotoru, said the whole crisis boils down to the politics of divide and rule deployed by the IOC to intimidate the community. Counsel to the community, Mr. Stanley Damabide, said several letters had been written to government and various security agencies, yet, the attacks have continued. In a reaction, Darlon Oil and Gas Limited said that its attention has been drawn to constant media trial by some leaders of Igbomotoru who have consistently accused its management of being involved in a recent military operation in Igbomotoru communities. A statement by the Chairman, Darlon Oil and Gas Limited, Chief Levi Wilson, indicated that as a registered and responsible oil and gas company saddled with the responsibility to discourage pipeline vandalism and crude oil bunkering activities, the company finds the repeated accusation that management was involved in the stationing of a military base in Igbomotoru communities to intimidate, maim and kill residents of the community, as rather unfortunate and malicious. It pointed out that its legal team was carefully studying the press release circulated to media outfits across the country, and would come up with the position of Darlon Oil and Gas Limited on the allegations soon. It also warned those involved in attempts to tarnish the image of the company to desist forthwith, as the management of Darlon Oil and Gas Limited would not hesitate to take legal action against the sponsors and actors of the unfortunate mudslinging campaign. The company used the medium to inform the general public that the said involvement of management or staff in the military operation at Igbomotoru community was not only false but a figment of the imagination of some sponsors of crude oil bunkering activities who will stop at nothing but tarnish the image of the company and put it out of the way so that they can go about vandalising crude oil facilities. It said that the clarification became necessary because its mandate was not to carry out military operations against crude oil thieves but to discourage pipeline vandalism and crude oil bunkering activities.
All is now set for the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to begin hearing on a suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party against the Independent Nat ional Electoral Commission, Accord Party and its National Assembly candidates for the 2023 general elections in Rivers State. To this end ,the High Court has fixed the commencement and hearing to begin on the 31st of August, 2022 When the matter which was expected to come up for hearing was mentioned, counsels representing the parties informed the court of the some applications and responses which were yet to be filed and replied. Counsel to Accord, Abdullahi Mohammed also moved a motion seeking to regularize his client’s counter-affidavit to the prayers of the PDP which was not opposed. Presiding Judge, Justice STEPHEN DAYLOP-PAM after listening to representatives of the political parties involved in the suit, directed that all applications and responses should be made on or before the new adjourned date which is on the 31st of August, 2022.
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