Reps Demand DPR Approvals, Agreement Documents for Trains 1-3 from Greenfield LNG. ….Vows to protect rights of oil host communities.
Njideka Ozoalor
The House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities has demanded all the approval documents from the relevent government agencies, the agreement documents and financial statement for the execution of trains 1-3 of Liquified Nataural Gas project by the Greenville LNG Ltd- the owners of the oil facilities.
Chaiman of the House Committee Hon. Dunamene Deakor gave the directive at an interractive and investigative meeting of the committee with the top management staff of the Greenvile LNG Ltd at on the citing of the oil facilities at the National Assembly.
The Rivers born lawmaker and some other committee members had vowed to ensure the protection of the rights of the host communities of the oil facilities during the investigative hearing.
He specifically demanded for all the approval documents for the exection of the gas project from Department of Petroleum Resources DPR by the Greenfield LNG and assured of implementatation of all agreement entered into by the company with host communities.
He said: “We requested for some documents and we are calling on the management of Greenville to present them.
“We will ensure the full implementation of the 13% derivation principle in in rvenue sharing and all other agreements”.
The House probe had uncovered and queried how the 5 out of 17 expatriate quotas given to the company by the Nigeria Immigration Service was used asking if they had complied with the directives of the approving aithorities.
The Managing Direcetor of the Company Mr Joseph Oyadoyin in his defence said there are only two lease agreements entered into by the company and its host communities.
He further said that it was only one out of the three train projects that had been completed by the company adding that phase 1 of the project is sited on 754 plots of land that the company leased.
On the expatriate quota, he said that they complied with the directives of the approving agency adding that it was in 2015 that the process of land acquistion by the company started.
