Oil bearing cluster communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have verbally attacked the management of oil multi-national Chevron Nigeria Limited over exclusion from benefits arising from their operation in their domain. The communities are Lobia and Koluama I and II, which are host to the operation of the oil multinational in the area. The Lobia and Koluama youths and women barricaded the entrance of KRDF secretariat in Opolo area of Yenagoa, the state capital. KRDF is funded by Chevron to implement existing Memorandum of Understanding and development projects in the oil firm’s host communities in the state. Some inscriptions on the placards brandished by the protesting indigenes, read, ‘Lobia community must not only benefit from negative effects of Chevron’s operations’, ‘The peace-loving people say no to exclusion, enough is enough’, ‘Lobia community is an autonomous community’, among others.

Source: Nigerian Tribune November 24, 2017 03:00 UTC