Urhobo sets for total shutdown of oil facilities in Delta as 14-day ultimatum to FG expires
all oil facilities of multinational oil companies operating in their land as the fourteen-day ultimatum handed down the Federal Government expires.
The group had earlier handed down a 14 days ultimatum, threatening to shut down oil and gas operations in their area if the Federal Government fails to initiate a fresh process of ceding out the 57 marginal oil fields and address issues of gross marginalization by multinationals. CATESUN appealed to President Buhari in the statement to call his officers in the oil and gas industry to order as they are the architects of the potentially combustive situation, which has the capacity to set the entire Niger Delta on fire again.It emphasized that a new process will give competent Urhobo men and women the opportunity to participate in oil and gas activities fairly, having “endured injustice, since the discovery of crude oil in their lands.
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