The group was joined by over a thousand indigenes of Rumuekpe community including youths, men, women and the elderly, during a peaceful protest on demand for payment of nineteen point two billion naira meant for eight months salary arias of TNP Oil Surveillance in area.
Speaking to newsmen, the President of Niger Delta Upland Communities, Isa Mohammed, decried the hijack of the surveillance contract in the area by indigenes of Riverine communities.
Mohammed demanded that the nineteen point two billion naira wrongfully diverted by PINL to fake warlords in the riverine communities, be returned to the upland communities, as he also called for the release of the original copies of documents for the oil surveillance contract for the TNP oil pipeline to the upland communities by the NNPCL.
Today FM’s Uchendu Ejiowhor reports that some indigenes of Rumuekpe community who also spoke to newsmen, decried neglect of the community by government and Oil companies operating in the area.
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