Dashed Hope In N’Delta: This PIB Is Satanic, Unjust, Embarrassing – Clark

• Demands reversal

Chief Edwin Clark, the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has reacted to the newly passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

BIGPENNGR reports that the bill recently passed by both the green and red chambers is before the national assembly for harmonization.

Reacting to it, Clark described the passed PIB as satanic, unjust, embarrassing, piece of would-be law that has dashed the hope of the people of the Niger Delta.

Clark, who is also the leader of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), condemned the provision and allocation of 30% of profits for further frontier oil exploration in the north and that it was fraudulently added.

Clark who was represented at a press conference in Abuja by PANDEF’s National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, declared that the region has had enough of the colonial oppression and will be resisting it.

The two chambers of the National Assembly last week Thursday passed the PIB, after about 13 years of legislative fireworks.

The bill was first sent to the National Assembly in 2008 by President Umaru Yar’Adua, now deceased, without translating into an Act.

The PIB, 2020 is seeks to introduce far-reaching reforms in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

Clark said the PIB passed does not reflect the long clamour by the people of region for equity, fairness and justice.

He demanded that the bill as passed be reversed hence the Niger Delta will take their destinies in their hands and deny International Oil Companies (IOCs), entry into the region.