OML 103 PIA Default: We Extend Our Ultimatum By 10 Days –Tsekelewu Community

PRESS STATEMENT

Recall, our ultimatum to CONOIL Producing Nigeria Limited to implement provisions of Chapter 3 of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, 2021 and the Nigerian Upstream Host Communities Development Regulations 2022 within 14 days, will expire on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.

However, we have decided to extend the Ultimatum by 10 days. This implies that the extended ultimatum will expire on January 20, 2023.

Our decision to extend the ultimatum is based on interventions by well meaning individuals and give Conoil producing limited management time to act in compliance with provisions of the 2021 Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) Chapter 3 sections 235(4), 251(4), 236, and 242, and 2022 Nigeria Upstream Host Communities Development regulations as contained in Regulations 4, 7, 9, 12 and 20. This extension will also give time for the management of Conoil Producing Ltd to call for a consultative meeting for peaceful resolution of this impasse. We are open to dialogue and consultation as clearly stated in the PIA.

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We are in receipt of an ambiguous and doubtful letter asking Tsekelewu and Opuama communities to nominate undefined numbers of board of trustee members. There is a legal burden in the said letter because it does not bears the name or position of the ‘authorised signatory ‘. Therefore we cannot authenticate the veracity of this letter.

Also, we wish to state that our request to make available the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by your company stands, in the light of the fact that your Sweeping and Dredging activities are negatively affecting our people stands.

Once more, we request the management of Conoil Producing Ltd to call for a consultative meeting with us and our sister community to resolve this impasse and progress the implementation of Chapter 3 of the PIA before the expiration of this extension on January 20, 2023

Thank you.

Signed:

Dr. Bright Abulu, President-General, Polobubo (Tsekelewu) Community;

Rev. Clement Doyah-Tiemo, General-Secretary;

Mr. Christmas Ukugha, Public Relation officer;

For and on behalf of the Polobubo (Tsekelewu) Community and its Bloc of Communities.