By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South OIL producing communities in Gbaramatu and Egbema Kingdoms, Delta State, have rejected the recommended governance model under the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, 2020 for host communities’ development where oil companies would become overlords over oil producing communities, warning it would generate unnecessary anxieties in Niger Delta. It would be recalled that Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, had insisted that the government offering host communities 2.5 per cent operational costs in the new PIB, was a clear attempt to shortchange the host communities. The communities under the Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, stated this in a memorandum to the Joint Committee on Petroleum Downstream Sector, Petroleum Upstream and Gas on PIB 2020 by its Chairman, Mr Jude Ukori.