PIB: North is using military constitution to oppress Niger Deltans, others, says National Coordinator, South-South elders The Punch
Published 13 July 2021 Anabs Sara-Igbe is a prominent Niger Delta activist and immediate past spokesman for the Pan Niger Delta Forum. He is currently a member, Board of Trustees of PANDEF and the National Coordinator of the South-South Elders Forum. In this interview with DENNIS NAKU, he says the PIB passed by the National Assembly is a rape on the people of the region
What is your reaction to the Petroleum Industry Bill recently passed by the National Assembly?
Well, it is quite unfortunate that the PIB, as it was passed, is another rape on the people of the Niger Delta. It is a rape in the sense that you take everything we have and give it to somebody else, who dosen’t produce. You give us three per cent and give somebody else 30 per cent. It is a total rape again in the way they define host communities. What it shows is tha
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.