Rivers House of Assembly lambasts Oil Company over outdated agreement with host Communities

Rivers State House of Assembly has ordered that a new Global memorandum of Understanding GMoU be drafted between Niger Delta Petroleum Resources NDPR and their host communities under Ahoada East local Government Area of Rivers State

This is part of the Assembly’s effort to settle the issues between Host Communities and the Company which was accused of operating with an expired GMoU

Speaker of the Assembly, Ikunyi Ibani, while readsing out the resolution after debating, said a new GMoU will help stabilize the operation of the Company and assist the affected Communities.

Some of the lawakers who spoke during the plenary reprehended the Company for operating with a GMoU that expired Four years ago.