A militant group, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has threatened to resume hostilities over the three per cent allocated to host communities
in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill by the National Assembly, which it describes as unfavourable.
The militants, in a statement yesterday, by its spokesperson, WO 1 Izon-Ebi, condemned the three per cent, as well as 30 per cent for exploration of frontier basins in the passed bill. “For 56 years, the region has suffered desecration of its sacred places like worship centres, lands, streams, lakes and severe environmental degradation without remediation.”
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