Nigeria: Day Ovade-Oghara Indigenes Grounded Pan Ocean Operations

Protesters in their thousands from Ovade community in the Ethiope West Local Government area of Delta State made up of the elders, women, youths, old and young armed with placards and fresh leaves, including caskets, at the weekend grounded the operations of Pan Ocean Oil Corporation Nigeria Limited which began in the area since 1976.

The protesting indigenes of the community stormed the company in the early hours of Thursday, April 30, 2015 with placards such as: 'Pan Ocean has destroyed our farm land'; 'No to Pan Ocean modern day slavery'; 'We need increment, we are tired of N28,500 per month'; 'Slavery must end forty years of Pan Ocean marginalisation to Ovade Community'; 'Contractors must go, we are tired of causualisation for 40 years'; 'Pan Ocean Must leave our land'; among others.

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