Obagi oil fields: Crisis over board of trustees membership deepens

This is because some indigenes of sixteen communities in Egi kingdom were attacked on their way to Total Energies in what appeared to be a protest, to submit a judgment of a federal high court and other letters to Total Energies, a judgment which is to confirm the sack of Hopeson Dike and six others as members of the PIA board.

The Paramount ruler of Obogu community, Ebenezer Hart-Eleba who spoke to newsmen accused the multinational of masterminding the attack on some indigenes of Egi kingdom even after the federal high court had taken a position in the best interest of the community.

Chief Hart-Eleba said they will continue to follow a legal means to stop those who want to rob the communities, warning that Total Energies allowed the interest of the Egi kingdom which the court has also confirm on the position of PIA board members to strive.

On his part, Elems Isaac-Ezeocha while narrating how he was attacked near the entrance of Total Energies by some individuals bearing different weapons, called on security agencies to urgently intervene to save Egi people from alleged plots by individuals in collaboration with the multinational.

A representative of Civil Society Organizations, John Ihua who was present at the protest said the position of the Civil Society Organizations has been that all parties must submit themselves to the decision of the court and allow peace to reign.

It would interest you to know that Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice Stephen Dalyop-Pam had in his judgment ordered the Total Energies not to recognize any member of the Board of Trustees of Obagi Oilfields Host communities.

The Court had also after setting aside a consent judgment obtained by Hopeson Dike and six others, directed that Dike and six others should not present themselves, organize, attend, or participate in an inauguration as members of Board of Trustees of Obagi Oilfields Host communities, and ordered Cooperate Affairs Commission and Total Energies to deregister the defendants as members of the Obagi Oilfields.