Niger Delta: Tension as over 100 oil producing communities protest non-payment of entitlements

There was dense protestation successful Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Thursday as much than 100 oil-producing communities and families staged protestation implicit the non outgo of their entitlements.

Our correspondent, who monitored the development, reports that the protesting communities from six states successful the Niger Delta stormed  the Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited gross successful Port Harcourt, demanding outgo of astir 87 cardinal naira successful alleged outstanding crushed rent.

The protesters, who gathered on Thursday, said the wealth covers crushed rent allegedly owed by the erstwhile Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, present Renaissance Africa Energy, for the play betwixt 2014 and 2023.

The affected states are Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo, Akwa Ibom and Abia.

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