NNPC To Follow Up On Ndokwa Demands As Elumelu Interface With GMD

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, says the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari would follow up on the agitations of Ndokwa Neku Union (NNU), the socio/cultural umbrella body of Ndokwa nation.

BIGPEN reports the Youth wing of Ndokwa Neku Union (NNU) had at the press conference held in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, on Wednesday threatened to disrupt the operations of Agip oil company operators of Independent Power Plant, Okpai, Midwestern Oil and Gas Company and others over alleged gross neglect of the area in scheme of things in Delta state.

The youths had at a press conference lamented the neglect of the area which they said, generates 50 per cent of the country’s oil and gas revenue.

Specifically, they gave the federal government two weeks ultimatum to address their grievances including the exclusion from marginal field bid recently opened by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).

According to them, “We call on the Federal Government to quickly attend to our demands in two weeks, or all oil facilities including those of Nigeria Agip Oil Company, Sterling Global Oil, Pillar Oil, Platform Petroleum company, Chorus Energy, Midwestern Oil and Gas, and others in Ndokwa nation, will be brought to their knees.”

But reacting to the threat, Elumelu said that there’s a bright lining on the horizon for the Ndokwa nation, one of Nigeria’s formost oil and gas producing ethnic nationality located in Delta State as the NNPC’s GMD has noted the grievances and demands of the youth wing of Ndokwa Neku Union.

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Disclosing this in a late night statement on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives said that having obtained and seen the grievances of the Ndokwa Nation as articulated by the Youth wing of Ndokwa Neku, he personally presented the youths’ demand to the GMD.

He hinted that the NNPC GMD has promised to facilitate measures towards ensuring that their grievances are looked into with a view of finding an amicable resolution.

Elumelu, however stated that the request of the Ndokwa People of Delta State are germane and in consonance with their right as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He described them as peaceful and highly resourceful people who have continued to demonstrate love and sanctity of the unity of the country.

The Minority Leader called on the youths to continue to eschew violence, and while assuring them that with dialogue and positive engagement, their request and agitations would be addressed and resolved with positive results which will translate to immense benefits for the people of Ndokwa Nation and the Country in general.

He stressed that violent agitation in any form has its negative repercussions not only to the people, but to the fragile economic structure of the country.

“The demands of the people of Ndukwa Nation of Delta State are genuine and in order. I personally brought it to the notice of the Group Managing Director of NNPC and I must say he took a critical look at the positions of the people as articulated by the Youth wing of their umbrella body.

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“My interaction with the GMD on their agitations was frank and I am happy to let the good people of Ndokwa nation know, that the GMD has promised in all fairness to look into their grievances with a view to following up,” the Minority Leader stated.

He therefore urged all to maintain the peace Delta State is presently enjoying, saying that worthwhile development cannot thrive in an atmosphere of rancour and violence.