Anambra oil-bearing communities protest neglect, deplorable amenities, seek govt intervention

Ogwuaniocha and Ogwuikpele communities successful Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, the 2 salient oil-bearing communities successful the state, person protested the deficiency of basal amenities successful their communities contempt the beingness of immense lipid deposits.

The communities accused the Anambra State Government of neglect, calling for the proviso of basal amenities to alteration their indigenes unrecorded mean lives. They besides called connected Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), an lipid mining institution operating successful the area, to fulfil its agreements with the communities.

Some members of the communities who spoke to journalists during a protestation march complained peculiarly astir alleged negligence connected the portion of SEEPCO, saying the institution had failed to fulfil immoderate of its obligations, including providing scholarships to indigenes of the country and establishing amenities specified arsenic schools, hospitals and entree roads.

The accepted ruler of Ogwuikpele Community, Odua Ukwu Ogwuikpele, Anagboso Anselm Bernard Ignatius Okaka, successful an interview, decried the mediocre surviving conditions successful the oil-producing community, calling connected the Federal and Anambra State governments to urgently code the infrastructure and biology challenges confronting his people.

“When the lipid exploration institution SEEPCO came into our community, we thought bully things had travel to stay....