Protesters shutdown NPDC flow station in Delta, demand N1.4b payment

UGHELLI – HUNDREDS of protesting youths and women
from Ughelli South and Udu Local Government Areas of
Delta State, Monday morning stormed the Jeremi Flow
station of Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC
in Ughelli South council area and forced officials of the
facility to shutdown production.


The protesters which also includes indigenes of the Isoko
Host Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCOM, stated that they
are pressing home their demands as a result of pipeline
surveillance contracts and unpaid N1.4billion funds from
the OML30.
Demanding for a separate pipeline surveillance contracts
for Urhobo and Isoko ethnic nationalities, spokespersons for
the protesters, Comrades Efe Okovwurie, Comrade Morrister
Idibra and Pastor Rochard Erhurhore in their various
remarks, warned that all facilities in OML 26, 30, 34, and 65
would remain shut until NPDC and Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, grant them their request.
The protesters who stormed the flow station at about 9am,
also demanded that NPDC should immediately create a
Contract Department in its Edjeba office to take care of
contractors in Delta state.
“NPDC is heavily indebted to most indigenous contractors
and must pay up the nine months outstanding monthly
salaries of host communities workers in OML 26, 30, 34,
and 65.”