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.
The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM) has urged the federal government to scrap the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The National President of HOSTCOM, High Chief Benjamin Tamaranebi made the call on Tuesday in an interview with journalists at the side-line of the public hearing on Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020, […]
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PIB: Scrap NDDC now, it has failed the people, Oil Host Communities tell FG
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By Henry Umoru
HOST Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, (HOSTCOM) Tuesday called on the Federal Government to scrap the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC) for the development of the region as it has failed the people of the Niger Delta.