Ijaw youths have shut down business activities at the operational headquarters of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

The youths, under the aegis of the Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) worldwide led by the Chairman of the Central Zone, Comrade Tari Tori, said the action was, among others, a result of alleged refusal by the board to compel the international oil companies (IOCs) to relocate to the Niger Delta.
They accused the NCDMB of operating an empty office in Bayelsa without notable directors and top management staff while opening operating branch offices in Abuja and Lagos.
The youths demanded that the Federal Government should immediately mandate all IOCs to relocate to the region, and that the executive secretary of the board must operate from the office in Bayelsa, instead of Abuja as, according to them, the law of the board demands.
The IYC also wants the board to immediately cancel the two offices created in Abuja and Lagos and relocate all NCDMB offices to the Niger Delta.While addressing the angry youths, Tori alleged that the NCDMB contravened the Nigerian Content Act, section 71, sub-paragraph 3, which they claimed stipulates that the local content board has the powers to establish branch offices within oil and gas producing states.
Lamenting that the board opened offices in Abuja and Lagos but has failed to open branches in the oil producing states, the IYC said it would not allow the NCDMB to divide the people and their common interest. According to him, all directors and the executive secretary spend time everyday in other offices in Lagos and Abuja but come once in three months to the headquarters.
A member of the board who pleaded anonymity told The Guardian yesterday that it was surprising that while the youths were pleading for the relocation of multinational oil companies, they were harassing the few that were in the region.
The source said that indeed the NCDMB maintained a liaison office in Abuja that has only five members of staff, adding that the office was hired because of the relationship between the company, the petroleum ministry and other such agencies. He condemned the turn of events during the protest, noting that what the youths were doing was capable of scaring away would-be investors from the region.
“We are not even thinking of relocating. Where are we going to move our 17-storey headquarters which is already in the 12th floor? The ED already explained everything to the IYC worldwide leadership that visited him, why is the zonal body now overriding the national? “ he queried.
In another development, the IYC condemned the killing of four soldiers and a civilian by unknown gunmen at Ekeremor Local Government of Bayelsa on Monday.
The gunmen suspected to be militants had on Monday ambushed and killed four soldiers and a civilian along the waterways of Letugbene. A statement by its spokesman, Henry Iyallah, described the killing as sad, unfortunate and barbaric considering the fact that not too long ago, soldiers were murdered at Ogbugbagbene community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.
“We call on the security apparatus to investigate and unravel those behind these dastardly acts. These unfortunate killings do not reflect the position of the Ijaw people.
The IYC extends its sympathy to the military authorities and the families of the soldiers and civilian who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident while also expressing their cooperation to wipe out criminal elements from Ijaw communities.”

According to the group, it is not part of the culture of Ijaw people to take the lives of human beings for no just case. “These actions are anti-Ijaw interest and against the interest of the communities close to where the killings took place in Bayelsa State.”
The state government has also condemned the killing of the soldiers. In a statement, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite expressed serious regret over the unfortunate incident, describing it as unwarranted, barbaric and totally unacceptable.
It was learnt that the militants overpowered the soldiers, seized their arms, moved them to a location in the creeks and shot them dead While one of the civilians, a boat driver was said to have escaped, the only survivor of the attack reportedly jumped into the water before he was shot by the hoodlums.
more details at http://www.akelicious.com/2017/09/ijaw-youths-shut-content-board-for-not.html

South South governors are bags of "scum", corrupt and selfish greedy bastards....

Every time there is a call for relocation of offices of oil companies to the oil producing region, they go behind, collect huge sums from the companies, and kill the issue....

Would have been " better " for us if we were born in Libya... Nigeria is a trap...

Nice move

.Everything in the Zoo is nothing but fraud


anything to scatter the Zoo is welcome
.

Zeze06:
South South governors are bags of "scum", corrupt and selfish greedy bastards....

Every time there is a call for relocation of offices of oil companies to the oil producing region, they go behind, collect huge sums from the companies, and kill the issue....

Would have been " better " for us we were born in Libya... Nigeria is a trap...

Is exactly what I've been kicking against, never trust South-South leaders, they're bunch of scumbags.

smartty68:

Is exactly what I've been kicking against, never trust South-South leaders, they're bunch of scumbags.

Its a societal thing

Its not about region, religion or tribe

sarrki:



Its a societal thing

Its not about region, religion or tribe

Yeah that I know, but when a particular thing is done repeatedly/wrongly most especially from a particular region then is bad

I swear the leaders are evil...

smartty68:

Is exactly what I've been kicking against, never trust South-South leaders, they're bunch of scumbags.

Ijaw youths are always angry

Executive Secretary don tire for una daily taxing and don run go Lagos/Abuja.


They should expand the local content law to cover all sectors and move the headquarters to Abuja. The Yenogoa office can be downgraded to a regional office.

Why should the local content board be restricted to only the oil industry??

The other sectors are also yearning for a local content regulation.

Vutseck:
.Everything in the Zoo is about fraud

anything to scatter the Zoo is welcome
.

Your ancestors and your decendant tried it but they never live to tell the story,you may not live to tell the storyCaution

DabLord:
Your ancestors and your decendant tried it but they never live to tell the story,you may not live to tell the storyCaution

Parasite


detach parasite from it's host and the death is near
.

Good one there. These are some of the restructuring we need not Ipob's idiocy.

Those that killed soldiers are only calling for calamity to befall their community.

Foolish move. Shutting the only office in your zone will only ensure none remains

Even the NNPC should move to SS. Let the ministry of petroleum remain in abuja

Seen

This is part of the things we are talking about. Their kinsman was there for 5 years without knowing the right things to do and none of them could raise even stick to protest his maladministration. Is it the fulani man from far north that will now right the wrong of their brother. South south and south east need sense in their agitation. Too bad for them

Nigeria is just managing together because of crude oil.

The people are wiser now Niger delta communities should be a hundred times developed than what it is today,the people have been raped blue black and demand justice more than ever.all the international oil companies should relocate their head offices to the Niger delta for even developments to take place.

All they are asking is the fish be brought near so the can reach out n kidnap them at will , is that to much to ask for i stand with myself

This country is just annoying

Vutseck:
.Everything in the Zoo is about fraud

anything to scatter the Zoo is welcome
.

FULL NAMES OF NNPC NEW APPOINTMENTS IN GEO POLITICAL ZONES.
SS=2, SW=3, North=10, SE=0.

North.
1] Malami Shehu, - MD Port Harcourt Refining Company.
2] Muhammed Abah, - MD Warri Refinery.
3] Umar Ajiya, - MD of NPMC.
4] Bala Wunti, - GGM CP&S.
5] Usman Yusuf, - GMD STA. (Tech).
6] Ahmadu-Katagum - GGM Shipping (Downstream).
7] Kallamu Abdullahi - GGM Renewable Energy Division.
8] Shaibu Musa - MD NNPC Medical Services Limited.
9] Ibrahim Birma - GGM Governance, Risk & Compliance Division.
10] Farouk Ahmed - MD Product Mkg - Retiring.

South West.
1] Adewale Ladenegan, - MD Kaduna Refinery
2] Adeyemi Adetunji, - MD NNPC Retail.
3] Bola Afolabi, - GGM Research & Development.

South South
1] Roland Ewubare - Group General Manager
2] Diepriye Tariah - MD of IDSL.

South East.
No one is deemed to fit their criteria to be appointed in any of the Positions not minding that they are more qualified in terms of number of degrees, experiences and length of services and Imo and Abia are oil producing states.
is this balanced or unbalanced?

nNEOo:
Beautiful nonsense

Did you even read the post

Na so. The war is brewing gradually

Zeze06:
South South governors are bags of "scum", corrupt and selfish greedy bastards....

Every time there is a call for relocation of offices of oil companies to the oil producing region, they go behind, collect huge sums from the companies, and kill the issue....

Would have been " better " for us if we were born in Libya... Nigeria is a trap...

scum bags

A member of the board who pleaded anonymity told The Guardian yesterday that it was surprising that while the youths were pleading for the relocation of multinational oil companies, they were harassing the few that were in the region.
Who wants to risk his or her life when we all know that the region is very volatile considering what we hear on TV's and newspapers.....

aolawale025:
Even the NNPC should move to SS. Let the ministry of petroleum remain in abuja

Nice one

While not justifying the action of the boys, the information here is wrong.

The boys were not protesting because they wanted offices relocated. It is not the job of NCDMB to relocate offices to Niger Delta.


What they were protesting against was that the headquarters of the company in Bayelsa was non-functional.

They also said the company should not have offices outside oil producing states.

The protesters were zonal, the national already met and agreed with NCDMB mgt on certain areas of cooperation.

Can the zonal override the national IYC?

muller101:
Nigeria is just managing together because of crude oil.

That's the truth
If not for oil we would have long gone our separate ways....