Nigeria: A'Ibom Oil Communities to Mobil - Relocate to A'Ibom or Leave Our Lands

27 June 2017

Uyo — Four core oil host communities in Ibeno, Eket, Esit Eket and Onna Local Government Areas, Akwa Ibom State, have asked the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, MPNU, to vacate their lands if it was averse to relocating its administrative headquarters to the state, its operational base, as directed by the Federal Government.

Leaders of the communities, who spoke when the Ad-hoc committee set up by the state House of Assembly, invited them and top management of Mobil for investigative hearing on the controversial N8 billion counterpart fund payment by the company for the construction of Eket-Ibeno road, said the operational license of the multinational oil firm should also be revoked.

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