Niger Delta youths protest at NASS, petition Akpabio over pipeline surveillance

The Coalition of Niger Delta Youths person submitted a petition to the President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, implicit lingering pipeline surveillance issues.

The youths presented their petition to the Senate President during a peaceful protestation at” the National Assembly connected Wednesday wherever they demanded the decentralisation of the pipelines contracts.

Addressing the press, Emaluji Michael Sunday, the National Secretary, United Niger Delta Congress, UNDC, said the conjugation was astatine the National Assembly to request a just woody for their people.

“The request for decentralization of pipeline surveillance operations is not conscionable a telephone for fairness, but a outcry for justice,” the Coalition said.

“For excessively long, our radical person suffered the consequences of lipid exploration and accumulation without reaping the benefits.”

They noted that the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, signed into instrumentality by President Muhammadu Buhari successful 2021, provides for assemblage information successful the lipid and state industry.

“We request that this proviso beryllium implemented. Chapter 3, Section 257 of the PIA states that ‘the big assemblage shall beryllium entitled to enactment successful the absorption of the petroleum operations successful their area’.

“We importune that the pipeline surveillance contract...