Nigeria: 30 OML Communities Threaten Legal Action Against Firm

6 February 2018

Oleh — OIL-bearing communities in the Oil Mining Lease, OML, 30, have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the management of Heritage Energy Services, to address issues of non-employment and non-award of contracts to their indigenes, failing which they will take legal action to press home their demands.

The communities, under the aegis of Forum of Communities Executives of Flow Stations, listed other of their grouses to include the failure of the company to pay the 2017 'Freedom to Operate' on the Operation and Maintenance, O&M, of the flow stations; failure to release 2017 and 2018 scholarships "as well as the outstanding 2016 GMOU funds that the company inherited from NPDC."

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