Delta Community Alleges Neglect, Unfair Treatment By Oil Firms

Residents of Otekpo quarter, Ellu community, Isoko North section authorities country of Delta State, person protested unpaid obligations by Sterling Global, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), and different stakeholders.

In a missive submitted to the companies’ Ogini and Warri offices, and copied to the Royal Majesty of Ellu Kingdom and instrumentality enforcement agencies, including the Area Command Ozoro and the DSS, the assemblage outlined respective grievances similar years of neglect, unfair treatment, and demanded urgent redress.

The letter, signed by representatives of Otekpo quarter, Mr Uzezi Warri, Odio Ogugberi highlights the non-payment of salaries to section surveillance workers who person been securing institution assets for months without compensation.

The delay, they claim, has caused untold hardship for families who trust connected these net for survival, contempt the workers’ continued dedication to their duties.

Another large constituent of contention is the unpaid rent for the entree roadworthy and a captious 16-inch transportation pipeline that runs done Otekpo land.

The assemblage alleged that Sterling Global and NPDC person failed to honour agreed payments, efficaciously depriving Otekpo of gross rightfully owed. “This rent has agelong been owed and yet ignored,” the missive stated.

Otekpo Quarter besides accuses the Ellu Community Development Association (ECDA) and the Osa household of monopolising benefits from trucking activities on the entree road, adjacent though Otekpo holds the largest agelong of that infrastructure. “We carnivore the burden, but others reap the benefits. That is not conscionable neglect, it is exploitation,” it emphasised.

Adding to their database of complaints, the assemblage decried their exclusion from assemblage slots and different improvement benefits enjoyed by different quarters wrong Ellu.

They argued that specified marginalisation has denied their youths and families entree to captious opportunities and empowerment programmes meant for the community.

The Otekpo Quarter representatives issued a beardown telephone for justice, demanding the contiguous clearance of outstanding payments, inclusion successful each assemblage benefits, and restoration of their rightful entitlements.

Sources wrong the assemblage suggest that peaceful demonstrations and imaginable ineligible steps whitethorn travel if nary enactment is taken wrong a tenable timeframe.

While calling connected authorities authorities astatine some authorities and national levels to intervene, the assemblage leaders person besides voiced concerns astir the imaginable menace to bid if these longstanding grievances stay unaddressed.