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PIB: N Delta groups threaten showdown over Reps approval of 3% for host communities

PIB: N’Delta groups threaten showdown over Reps’ approval of 3% for host communities The Punch Published 17 July 2021 The Ijaw National Congress has said it will not be able to guarantee peace in the Niger Delta over the decision of the National Assembly to retain the three per cent proposed for host communities in the harmonised Petroleum Industry Bill. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People also warned that the PIB had the capacity to generate conflict with host communities, urging the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), not to sign the bill into law. But the INC commended National Assembly members from the region who staged a walkout during the passage of the harmonised PIB on Thursday to protest against the three per cent allocation.

The Loud Echoes of the Southern Governors

Eddy Odivwri Twice they have spoken, twice they have shaken the polity. First, it was in Asaba, Delta State (last May 11) and just last Monday, they roared again, this time in Lagos, the city they have declared as the permanent secretariat of the Southern Governors’ Forum. Only the naïve can either dismiss the 17 governors of Southern Nigeria or trifle with the points they have made. The message from the governors is as clear as crystal. And it is not far from declaring that the status quo cannot be allowed to continue. And this does not have anything to do with party affiliation or a warped sense of loyalty to some insensitive political leader. Both governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or even All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The resolve seems to be like saying, we cannot be slave to party loyalty at the expense of the lives and safety of our people. This has been expressed on all fronts.

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