ABUJA – Oil producing communities yesterday, protested to the National Assembly, against what they called non-payment of land owners Shell Petroleum Development Company.
The protesters who besieged the main gate of the NASS Complex in the early hours of the day, decried discriminatory payments among the oil communities.
The oil producing communities, under the aegis of Landlords of Shell Oil Producing Communities of Niger Delta, described the art as a divide and rule method, that could cause quarrel among the communities.
Spokesperson of the group and former member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Isaac Onniye, accused the company of paying N200,000 per hectare for some communities as against N600,000 they pay to others.
He therefore insisted on the payment of the differentials to the affected land owners for the 2014 to 2018 payment cycle.
Onniye disclosed that the communities are drawn from Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Abia, Imo and Rivers States.
In a petition addressed to the Senate President Bukola Saraki, the group noted that both parties had earlier appeared before the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions
