Nigeria: Rivers, A-Ibom Set to Clash Over Oil-Field Dev Project

9 October 2007

Port Harcourt — TO avert any outbreak of crisis between Rivers and Akwa Ibom states over Amenam Kpono field development project (0mh 99/100) operated by Tota Elf Petroleum Nigeria limited, the federal government has been told to urgently step into the raging controversy with a white paper affirming the territorial location of the project.

In a letter to President Umar Musa Yar Adua, the people of Andoni local government in Rivers State said the oil field is sited in its territorial waters, but that it was craftily ceded to Akwa Ibo State, thus informing the name Amenam Kpono, a coinage reportedly from Akwa Ibom.

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