The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has rejected the proposed three per cent allocated to oil-bearing and pipeline-bearing host communities, maintaining its request on nothing less, but 20 per cent. “A paltry 3% is what Northern lawmakers felt should be for the owners and host oil communities, a culmination of a game of wits between Southern Legislators who wanted justice for our people versus Northern lawmakers who connived with International Oil Companies (IOCs) and their principals to ensure those host communities must not be given the insulative and unacceptable 5% they initially offered. “Even this unacceptable 3% is also redefined to include any pipeline bearing communities such as those areas in the north where oil pipelines pass through to convey petroleum products entitled to the same 3% that oil-bearing communities from where oil is drilled will be entitled. “The mischievous decision to conflate host oil communities with non-oil-bearing communities in defining host community is a device, first to set up communities against themselves within our region and to recruit other communities against the oil-bearing communities, an old device of divide and rule colonialist strategy to keep our people busy fighting themselves. He warned that “if they participate in that joint session to pass it, history shall record it and so shall all those who participated be remembered by history.”YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNEBuhari Urges MTN For Quality Service, Downward Price Review In Cost Of Data, Other ServicesPresident Muhammadu Buhari Friday at State House Abuja urged the MTN Group to make the available top-of-the-range service to its Nigerian subscribers.. UPU rejects 3% for host communities, describes 30% to North through ‘oil frontiers’ as provoking ; UPU rejects 3% for host communities, describes 30% to North through ‘oil frontiers’ as provoking ; UPU rejects 3% for host communities, describes 30% to North through ‘oil frontiers’ as provoking ; UPU rejects 3% for host communities, describes 30% to North through ‘oil frontiers’ as provoking.

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 04, 2021 16:07 UTC