{"id":2287,"date":"2025-02-24T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:05:09","slug":"bayelsa-monarch-decries-govt-oil-coys-nddcs-neglect-of-oil-producing-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/bayelsa-monarch-decries-govt-oil-coys-nddcs-neglect-of-oil-producing-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa Monarch Decries Govt, Oil coys, NDDC,s neglect of\u00a0 oil producing communities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By David Owei, Bayelsa.<\/div>\n
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The Paramount Ruler of lkarama Federated Communities in Yenagoa local of area of Bayelsa state, HRH Wariebi Berebozigha the 13th Ama-Miepinamo Owei of Ikarama\u00a0 has condemned government and oil companies insensitivity towards\u00a0 Infrastructural development in\u00a0 their domain despite being host to major oil companies, SPDC and NAOC that have been operating there for decades.<\/div>\n
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The monarch also disclosed that being a peaceful and peace loving community without any negative reports of hostility, crisis , violence and troubles, government has continued to undermine their peaceful disposition.<\/div>\n
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The monarch who is barely one year in office stated this while speaking to journalists in his palace at lkarama.<\/div>\n
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According him\u00a0 since he was coronated , he has implemented\u00a0 some self help\u00a0 projects such as roads, solar light,but we hear that NDDC is providing solar lights all over the Niger Delta state and enduring peace, and promised to do more with the cooperation from his subjects.<\/div>\n
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He disclosed that these affore mentioned projects were self help from the community without external funding.<\/div>\n
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He said the only tangible project in the state was health centre that was constructed and equipped by NAOC, but was abandoned without\u00a0 staff and was vandalised and taken over by grasses and reptiles, until the state governor Senator Douye Diri during 5th year anniversary gave directives that it should be a cottage hospital and staff to be deployed there\u00a0 immediately. We are grateful to the governor, senator Douye Diri, Deputy governor Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo and the commissioner for Health, Prof Seiyaf Brisibe for this singular kind gesture.<\/div>\n
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He lamented that being an oil producing community, the people still lived in abject poverty without infrastructures.<\/div>\n
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” Nigeria Agip Oil company of Nigeria initiated a health centre and after building it was abandoned and was vandalised, until it was taken over by Bayelsa state government on the 10th of February.<\/div>\n
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The roads they constructed were meant to ease their\u00a0 access to their facilities, same thing to bridges they constructed. SPDC also provided water boreholes which they powered with diesel and a guest house that has been abandoned.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0But the generator that NAOC provided conditioned us to buy diesel to power it,but my people are peasant farmers who could pay such levy.Compared to the quantum of oil and gas they produced from here, these projects were not commensurate. SPDC gave us light from Adibawa flow station, but whenever the put it off, we are thrown into darkness.<\/div>\n
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He also complained of the dilapidated Community Secondary school, lkarama with buildings poorly constructed and posed as threat to conducive learning environment.<\/div>\n
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He also appealed to the Bayelsa Ministry of Education to provide perimeter fencing citing that schools in the communities of the commissioner of education, Dr Gentle Emelah and Honorable member representing Yenagoa constituency 3,Honorable Ted Elemoforo, due to lack of perimeter fencing the is having security challenges to lives of youth corp members and frequent vandalisation and theft of the school properties.The students don’t have toilet facilities as they go to the forest to answer call of nature amid snakes attack.<\/div>\n
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Also, being the most populated community in Okordia clan with registered population of\u00a0 over 1000, with one pulling unit is appalling and called on political class to advocate for more pulling units.He also appealed for a community market and ready to donate land free to the government.<\/div>\n
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He also commended the Bayelsa Media Network Award for nominating us as the Traditional Ruler of the Year, promising that he would not take this award which he didn’t solicit for\u00a0 for granted as it will rather spur him to do more for his subjects.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Owei, Bayelsa. The Paramount Ruler of lkarama Federated Communities in Yenagoa local of area of Bayelsa state, HRH Wariebi Berebozigha the 13th Ama-Miepinamo Owei of Ikarama\u00a0 has condemned government and oil companies insensitivity towards\u00a0 Infrastructural development in\u00a0 their domain despite being host to major oil companies, SPDC and NAOC that have been operating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[80,1392,41,1391,1394,350,1393],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-gas","tag-facilities","tag-neglect","tag-oil","tag-producing","tag-rulers","tag-traditional","tag-vandalize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}