₦airaland Forum

There were tense moments at the House of Representatives on Thursday as members approved a clause in the Petroleum Industry Bill to include the entire country as ‘host community’ of petroleum resources.

By approving the clause, the House said all “upstream and downstream ” communities in the country would now benefit from the‎ “Petroleum Host Community Fund”, proposed in the PIB.
In the original version of the bill from the Executive, the PHCF was proposed to assist cushion the effects of oil exploration activities on oil producing communities.

Oil companies, according to the bill, are to contribute 10 per cent of their net profit to the Fund.
However, the House AdHoc Committee on the PIB amended the beneficiaries of the PHCF to include all parts of the country rather than restricting it to oil communities alone.

Chairman of the committee, Mr. Ishaka Bawa, while throwing light on the recommendation, told members that communities with refineries or have oil pipelines traversing them, were automatically “host communities.”

He added, “It means that even states, where there are refineries or there are pipelines are host communities.

“It is beyond oil producing communities. “
Bawa stated further that the only exceptions were states like Sokoto and Kebbi.

Although, the House passed the recommendation, it was not without some protests.

Some Niger Delta lawmakers, led by Mr. Leo Ogor, sought to retain the original proposal.

Ogor argued that the recommendation of the committee might face challenges of implementation because of what he called “many technicalities that will hinder progress.”

He insisted that the House should restore the original provision, but his position was defeated ‎by the majority of members, who backed the community’s recommendation.

The House also reduced the 10 per cent contribution to the PHCF to 7.5 per cent.
But, oil companies are still required to carry out corporate social responsibilities in host communities to make up for the reduced financial contribution.

Lawmakers began considering the report on the controversial bill on Wednesday.

The 368-page report has 312 sections and 348 clauses.

By Thursday, members had passed 116 clauses at the Committee ‎of the Whole, which was presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha.
The House later adjourned further consideration of the bill till Tuesday next week.

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You can ask the result writers/allocators. The apc have said severally that they did not see results sheets. They have also accused inec and pdp of allocating results to whom they please, including non existent paties. So maikng it look like apc won in eleme is just a strategy to divert attention.
Obviously pdp was too careless. They rigged just the way their brains told them to do it not minding the change in the electoral process. Personally i wasnt expecting anything less. More than 80% of those the pdp projected for house of assembly seats are militants. They acted to type.

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I thought he said they were fighting for a cause and so should be granted amnesty like the Niger Delta militants?
Well as long as he is ready to wipe them out I don't have a case anymore.