Timipre Sylva
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and South-South Elders’ Forum have berated Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, for saying that International Oil Companies (IOCs) cannot relocate to the Niger Delta region due to insecurity and violence.
But National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Ken Robinson, said Sylva’s argument that the IOCs could not relocate to the Niger Delta Region due to insecurity was not only fallacious, but also provocative.
Sylva had said at the weekend in Abuja that the quest for IOCs to relocate their operational headquarters to the region could not be achieved in an atmosphere of rancour and violence when the Niger Delta Agitators Forum (NDNAF) named him its patron and peace ambassador.