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The youths of Ogbotobo Community, operating nether the auspices of ‘Concerned Youths of Ogbotobo Federated Communities’ successful Bayelsa State, person issued a ceremonial request for the contiguous evacuation of Jomason’s House-Boat located astatine Agbayama successful Bayelsa State wrong 2 weeks.
In a connection signed by their spokesman, Comr. Akeme Moses, the Concerned Youths voiced their dissatisfaction with what they perceived arsenic oppression, intimidation, and threats posed by Mr. Jomason implicit the past 30 years since his company’s operations began successful the Ogbotobo lipid field.
The younker alleged that Mr. Jomason has been covertly awarding section contented contracts to his ain firm, allegedly collaborating with officials from Shell, present known arsenic Renaissance, portion overlooking the capabilities of indigenous contractors who could fulfil these contracts.
The connection work successful parts, “Mr. Jomason, who is not a subordinate of our assemblage but originates from the distant Ayama community, has exploited his power wrong ‘Shell’ (now ‘Renaissance’) to unafraid lucrative contracts without consulting our assemblage leadership. We are alarmed by his signifier of secretly awarding section contented jobs to himself, devoid of competitory bidding oregon adherence to indispensable qualifications.”
The Ogbotobo youths further noted that, “Now the astir achy enactment is that, the assemblage enactment looked critically into this contented and precocious recommended an Indigenous contractor for the houseboat job; however, Renaissance officials, successful collusion with Jomason, person inexplicably refused to judge this recommendation, prioritizing their ain interests.”
They criticised Mr. Jomason for maintaining subject information responsibilities astatine the Ogbotobo flow-station and the Trans-Ramos pipeline for 3 decades without contributing to assemblage development, each portion precocious awarding himself a subject houseboat declaration astatine Agbayama. “He has been the 1 handling the subject information occupation successful the Ogbotobo flow-station and the Trans-Ramos pipeline successful the past thirty(30) years without rendering immoderate cooperate societal work to the Ogbotobo federation and has precocious secretly awarded a subject houseboat occupation to himself astatine the Agbayama location,” they revealed.
Expressing their demands clearly, the youths stated, “We telephone upon the wide nationalist and applicable authorities to guarantee that Mr. Jomason and the officials of Renaissance to vacate the houseboat astatine Agbayama wrong 2 week. Should they neglect to comply, we volition beryllium compelled to instrumentality matters into our ain hands. Because Mr. Jomason and his cohorts successful Renaissance cannot proceed to bask juicy contracts whilst indigenous contractors wallow successful poorness and hunger against the section contented act.”
The youths, however, urged the Bayelsa State Government, the Federal Government, the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), the Inspector General of Police, and the Operation Delta Safe (ODS) to guarantee that Mr. Jomason and Renaissance were held accountable for immoderate imaginable unrest successful Ogbotobo resulting from this escalating tension.
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