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The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) on Sunday reacted to the controversy between the presidency and the owners of the multi-million dollars Egina Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility over the decision of the federal government to relocate the fabrication from LADOL yard in Lagos to Agge in Bayelsa State.

They said they would not allow materials fabricated in Lagos to be used in the platform in the Niger Delta region.

The IYC’s reaction is subsequent to an interim order of the federal High Court, Lagos, stopping the federal government from implementing the directive.

According to the IYC in a statement by its spokesman, Comrade Eric Omare, "We want to make it clear that whether court injunction or no court injunction, we would not allow materials to be fabricated in Lagos and used to build oil platform in the Niger Delta region. Niger Deltans have been taken for granted for too long and we would no longer accept it.

"The IYC and indeed the Niger Delta people back the directive of President Jonathan to move the fabrication of oil and gas materials to the Niger Delta where the eventual job is to be done. We also support the directive to move oil and gas cargoes to only ports in Warri, Calabar and Onne. This is not only in line with the requirement of the local content law but it also makes so much economic sense.

"It is common knowledge that Lagos is highly congested and there is need to move some class of cargoes especially oil and gas materials to ports within the Niger Delta region where the oil facilities are located.

"We consider the opposition to the Presidential directive and the attendant media propaganda by the Lagos cabal as an insult on Niger Del tans. It is on record that all the oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region have their offices in Lagos to the detriment of the Niger Delta economy.

"Henceforth, Niger Deltans would take steps to ensure that any oil company without its headquarters in the Niger Delta region would not be allowed to operate in the region. The IYC frowned and condemn the ex-parte order of the federal High Court.

"We wonder how the federal High Court would hurriedly grant such an order without giving opportunity to other parties to present their own side of the case. We question the swiftness of the order and call on the National Judicial Council to investigate the judge who granted the order."



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-platform-fabrication-ijaw-youths-draw-battle-line/209566/

IzonOwei:
my brother its not too late..we can stand up and do the right thing even if our past leaders have been useless..jonathans loss might just be a blessing for the niger delta after all,jolting us to wake up and fight the fine fight...

lordonwils:
the costal part of ondo is definitely niger delta. the ijaws inhabits those areas in ondo.

ilugunboy:
If you try to create more mess for the incoming administration to add to the financial quagmire the outgoing admin is leaving for Nigerians.....be ready for some rough time from the new government.

HopeAtHand:


Sometimes i wonder how the Ijaws reason.You cannot make your area unfriendly to investors and complain when people refuse to invest in your area..

Ijaw neighbourhoods are so rough to walk freely by day and no go areas by night..They hardly outgrow cultism and thuggery.No sane person will risk his life and resources investing there..They have to change their ways.

Gej had 6yrs and he did nothing for Ijaws and other ethnicities in NDelta..hes gone now, the best thing to do is to liase with SSouth leaders in the new govt to ensure some ills are corrected. A diplomatic approach will appeal to govt and then to local and foreign investors

Ujulabelle:

So u don't know Ondo is in Niger Delta region? Go back to school. May be you don't understand the meaning of NDDC. Go back to social studies. You are not permitted to be here. You should be in Primary 2 because a Primary 3 pupil knows the answer.

Chukwugekwu:
if you were God u would have killed many .....how can you say a such thing.........are they not kidnapping in lagos or other atrocities they. ... This is evil mind

Jobneeded12:


Your not yoruba
We yorubas aren't violent
GEJ didn't favour any yoruba man instead humiliated them

Ujulabelle:
I'm not from Niger Delta but I know a bit of history. They have been marginalised. That is why they become violent. How can Federal government during military era moved refinery from Niger Delta to Kaduna? Is it not risky? Just because Northerners want to control the economy leaving the owners in abjectivity. They should build the refinery in Niger Delta and at the same time maintain a peaceful relationship with the native. Niger Deltans are not evil. It is just that the governmnet has not treated them well. The oil mafias too have not treated them well. Let's be sincere if Jonathan packed all the resources to his ppl, we would still complain.

lexy2014:
what did d yorubas do 2 make lagos attractive 2 investors and d "big banks"?

Ujulabelle:
I'm not from Niger Delta but I know a bit of history. They have been marginalised. That is why they become violent. How can Federal government during military era moved refinery from Niger Delta to Kaduna? Is it not risky? Just because Northerners want to control the economy leaving the owners in abjectivity. They should build the refinery in Niger Delta and at the same time maintain a peaceful relationship with the native. Niger Deltans are not evil. It is just that the governmnet has not treated them well. The oil mafias too have not treated them well. Let's be sincere if Jonathan packed all the resources to his ppl, we would still complain.

theV0ice:


Of course, why not?? what's the big deal about buying oil from outside to refine?? what is the big deal? are we alien to importation? even Oshiomhole had to import a wife as recently as last friday so why can't Dangote import the crude his refinery needs?

after all we've been using imported fuel to run Nigeria for plenty years now and even getting defrauded by the gej government created cabal in the process so why can't we get a step further by importing the crude to refine here?

Dangote refinery will even buy the crude off the militants that steal it everyday....400,000 barrels of stolen crude will be enough to feed the plant.

GEJ decides to force a PRIVATE project conceived in 2003 to bayelsa 2 weeks to the end of his tenure and you want the promoters to keep quiet? was he on Valium 5 overdose for the past 5 years of his kindergarten presidency? (apologies to Prof David-West)

why didn't he do it earlier? why the last minute desperation? to show his people he didn't forget them? To buy himself a hero's welcome?

EMANY01:


Well better no investment in nigeria as a whole but any new investment in the oil and gas industry of nigeria outside of the ND is at major and verifiable risk when the time comes to position it or use it in the ND SIMPLICITA.
THE WAYO DON DO.SAY WE NO TALK NO MEAN SAY WE BE MUGU.NO BE SAY WE NO GO SCHOOL NO BE SAY WE NO NO BOOK.

THAT REFINERY IF IT GETS BUILT IN LAGOS HAD BETTER BUY CRUDE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET OUTSIDE OF THE NIGER DELTA.EXCEPT THEY HIT CRUDE IN LAGOS THEN GOOD FOR THEM.

If the fools had left it in ondo as originally conceived we would not have said a word ,but in keeping with their sense of entitlement they sabotaged that and diverted it to lagos.
We are waiting......

Ujulabelle:
I'm not from Niger Delta but I know a bit of history. They have been marginalised. That is why they become violent. How can Federal government during military era moved refinery from Niger Delta to Kaduna? Is it not risky? Just because Northerners want to control the economy leaving the owners in abjectivity. They should build the refinery in Niger Delta and at the same time maintain a peaceful relationship with the native. Niger Deltans are not evil. It is just that the governmnet has not treated them well. The oil mafias too have not treated them well. Let's be sincere if Jonathan packed all the resources to his ppl, we would still complain.

nonaira:
I have to agree with them. How can you build a company in lagos yet everything that company would be fabricating is coming from ND.

The injustice in thatc country is becoming ridiculous

lexy2014:
Hmmm...were did u get your information? Let me educate u a bit. Nigeria has 4 refineries, one in Kaduna, one in warri and two in PH. At no time did d govt change d location of any refinery. So what are u really trying 2 say?

onatisi:
is the plant a government company or a private investment ? Let's answer this question first.

deletrue:
Is not as if you people are better in doing any thing than others. It just that Lagos was the capital, it there attracted many good things especially because it was taken as the seat of power. What is happening now is that the yorubas are using the opputunity to always devert companies, banks etc to locate their head quarter there even though, it is possible to locate them in other places. You use your oppressive acts to always influence them to lagos.
Take it from today, all those rubbish must stop NOW. The GEJ government has shown the world and the people of other regions that, we are not one Nigeria. That time is about going. In fact, it will go with GEJ government. From now on, it will be blow for blow, shot for shot etc. Afterall, there is nothing interesting in this one sided country. No body will tolerate each other. Period.

deflover:


why is there a refinery in kaduna.....is the raw material located there.....the last time i remember economics it makes better sense to site a project where one can find the raw material.....so is kaduna near the raw material.....wat do you call that....is that the spirit of real economics......

lyntiffany:
I like the part omare said " henceforth any oil company that does not have their oil company in N/D would not be allowed to operate in their region" now this is what I call taking the bull by the horn.

One will simply imagine how a region is creating wealth and it is being enjoyed by the "sophisticated" and the "born to rule" mentality.
To enlighten you come to south south most of the oil companies there are being managed by the "sophisticated" whereas the youths and the owners of the oil begg's to be employed.
So much injustice perpetrated in this country called one Nigeria.

Ujulabelle:
I'm not from Niger Delta but I know a bit of history. They have been marginalised. That is why they become violent. How can Federal government during military era moved refinery from Niger Delta to Kaduna? Is it not risky? Just because Northerners want to control the economy leaving the owners in abjectivity. They should build the refinery in Niger Delta and at the same time maintain a peaceful relationship with the native. Niger Deltans are not evil. It is just that the governmnet has not treated them well. The oil mafias too have not treated them well. Let's be sincere if Jonathan packed all the resources to his ppl, we would still complain.

oyb:
These ignorant jokers have still not learnt anything. They keep showing the rest of the world they are not fit to do business with. Keep fueling your reputation has high risk rentiers.

Jobneeded12:


Illiterate you can't force private individuals to relocate HQ, NO region in SE/SS CAN MATCH THE Purcahsing power of the WEST that's why they all run there

deflover:


why is there a refinery in kaduna.....is the raw material located there.....the last time i remember economics it makes better sense to site a project where one can find the raw material.....so is kaduna near the raw material.....wat do you call that....is that the spirit of real economics......

IzonOwei:
who gives a damn if its or not?...if not for mad reasons why should fpso parts be constructed miles away from where it would be installed??..this is how all oil companies are in lagos thereby stifling the lil chance the niger deltans have to get oil jobs...