By Deji Elumoye in Abuja
Host communities in the nine oil-producing states have called for the scrapping of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
This is just as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, urged the host communities to accept the 2.5 per cent fund provided in the revised Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), instead of insisting on 10 per cent.
The National President of the Oil Host Communities (HOSTCOM), Chief Benjamin Tams, said yesterday at the end of the two-day public hearing on the revised 2020 PIB that all the intervention agencies established by the federal government for the development of oil host communities had not made much impact on the development of the communities.