The Senate further directed that the payment should be made within sixty days.
The resolutions were adopted after the Senate considered the report of its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions that investigated a petition by the communities.
Presenting the report, the Committee chairman, Senator Patrick Akinyelure said following its incorporation, the NLNG acquired landed properties in Rivers state spanning over 210 kilometres for use as its pipeline Right of Way which ended at the export terminal of the NLNG in Finima, Bonny Local Government of the state.
He said there were over seventy three communities and over two hundred families whose agrarian source of livelihood were negatively impacted upon by the acquisition.
