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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Ijaw youths give Shell 7 days to shut flow station By Emma Amaize Wednesday, December 01, 2004 WARRI — IJAW youths, yesterday, gave the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) a seven-day ultimatum to shut down its Beniseide flow station at Ojobo community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State and evacuate all its staff or face a massive reprisal attack. The order is against the spirit of the truce reached, last Wednesday, in Warri by representatives of the community and the SPDC at a peace meeting, brokered by the Delta State Government. Tension had mounted in the community over the shooting of about 21 youths who were protesting an alleged marginalisation of the community in terms of contracts and employment by soldiers who were guarding the flow station about a fortnight ago. The state government waded into the matter but while blaming the SPDC for breaking the terms of its Memorandum of Understanding with the community, it enjoined the community to create an enabling environment for the company to operate and provide jobs for them. But the Ijaw Youths Collegiate Leadership in a statement, jointly signed by Messrs. Ebi Moni, Kennedy Orubebe and six others, said that the shooting of the youths was premeditated as the "youths notified the head of security to the flowstation, one Lieutenant Ibrahim of the Nigerian Army of their mission before they proceeded as well as the Ojobo community chairman." They said that while the youths were waiting to be addressed on their request by the company personnel, Lt. Ibrahim whom they notified of their mission emerged from nowhere with a handful of other soldiers and opened fire on the youths, adding that a similar incident occurred early this year at the Opukushi flowstation, where security agents opened fire on youths who went to protest the company’s failure to keep to its side of the MOU. According to the group, "all embassies and diplomatic missions whose nationals are retained in Rig 75 in Beniseide flowstation should recall their staff." The Ijaw youths also banned the contracting firm handling the operation for the SPDC, Parker Drilling a persona non grata in all Ijaw communities.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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