{"id":150306,"date":"2025-02-14T21:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/akwa-ibom-ibeno-communities-protest-over-incessant-attacks"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:51:05","slug":"akwa-ibom-ibeno-communities-protest-over-incessant-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akwa-ibom-ibeno-communities-protest-over-incessant-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Akwa Ibom: Ibeno communities protest over incessant attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>People of Ibeno, an rich oil producing local government in Akwa Ibom State have taken to the streets to register their frustrations over persistent attacks on them<\/p>\n<p>They noted that local and international investors, including Chinese firms in the area, are facing serious threat to their businesses, which according to them, if not addressed, could scare them away from their area.<\/p>\n<p>They recalled that Ibeno, host to the defunct Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, MPNU, at the Qua Iboe Terminal, QIT, now Seplat Energy Producing Unlimited, SEPNU, and other allied oil servicing firms, had been subjected to frequent attacks on February 26, 2024, November 8, 2024 December 24, 2024 and February 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The affected communities, according to them, include: Iwuochang, Ndito Eka Iba, and Inua Eyet Ikot 11, which had suffered attacks twice by mercenaries allegedly sponsored by the Ekid People\u2019s Union (EPU), their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the forum after the protest, Chief Okon Udofia Okon, Secretary of the Ibeno Clan Council and Capt. Okpolo Emmanuel, President of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Ibeno LGA chapter, regretted the inability of governments, especially the Umo Eno-led administration in the state, to provide security to local residents of oil communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is not bothered about security in oil communities that produce resources that generate revenues to run Nigerian states. They allow Eket and Esit Eket to suppress and suffocate us because we choose to be peace \u2013 loving because of too many investors coming to do oil and gas businesses in our domain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aggressors from Eket and Esit Eket are mistaking our silence for weakness because we know that if we react, the negative multiplier effects would be too much for the state and Nigeria because it will tell so much on the oil and gas infrastructure and job losses,\u201d Chief Okon, noted.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that the governor had at the height of the crisis visited and sued for peace, urging both parties to cease hostilities as the case in dispute \u2013 ownership of the Stubb Creek Forest acquired by BUA Group for the ongoing refinery project, was still pending in Court.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why their Ekid neighbours were still fomenting violence with threat to exterminate Ibeno people from their ancestral land because of the oil resources.<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein, Capt. Okpolo, the IYC Youths\u2019 Leader, warned of heavy reprisal that would be more devastating, if continued to push, wondering why a sovereign LGA created and gazetted by the federal government could be issued a quit notice from their homes by another LGAs, recalling that the Dr. Udonsak \u2013 led EPU, had issued the \u201cquit notice\u201d last month after their annual congress, with a follow- up attacks subsequently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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