Protesting Youth Groups In Delta Shut Down Oleh/Olomoro Flow Station

BIGPENNGR.COM reports that the flow station was shut down on Thursday as aggrieved youths in their numbers stormed the company’s premises in the wee hours of the day chanting solidarity songs to press home their grievances.

They were protesting the company’s failure to interface with them over vexed issues of none implementation of Local Content Act in terms of employment and also award of Pipeline Surveillance Contracts to the host communities.

Addressing newsmen, the Presidents of Isoko Development Union – Youth Wing, Mzee Fidelis; the Isoko Youth Assembly, IYA worldwide, Comrade Onoriode Gold Omagufi; President of Niger-Delta Ex – Agitators, Isoko chapter, Comr. Joseph Okor, alleged inhuman treatment of the host communities and the youth bodies by the oil firm.

They claimed that the oil company had failed to give due recognition to the youth groups despite making the environment friendly for them to operate.

They said that until their demands are met the flow station would remain shut, saying the host communities and youths have suffer untold hardship in the hands of the oil firm.