The House of Representatives is set to begin legislation that will direct all oil and gas companies in Nigeria to relocate their headquarters to States they have dominant operations.<\/p>\n
A member representing Degema\/Bonny Federal Constituency, Rivers State, Hon. Farah Dagogo disclosed this while hosting the executives of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) in his office on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker said a motion to that effect has been submitted and a high-level lobby had begun, adding that, when the motion is adopted, oil companies and its regulators would have a first-hand experience of \u2018obnoxious and heinous policies\u2019 they have visited on \u2018oil-bearing communities and states.\u2019<\/p>\n
Hon. Dagogo lamented the rise in health hazards and environmental degradation as a result of oil activities in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, they have relocated their operational headquarters from these areas where they have committed loads of atrocities to a supposed safe haven.<\/p>\n
\u201cRevenues, job employment, tax applicable to the states and other benefits that could be used to assuage those affected by these practices are rather hosted in cities far from their exploitations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a representative of those affected by these injustices, they have asked me to speak and I have started the process and I\u2019m confident my colleagues in the House will key into it because it is all about the people, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Regulators of the Oil and Gas companies expected to be affected by the relocations included; Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, The Products and Pipelines Marketing Company, PPMC, and Nigerian Petroleum Exchange, NIPEX.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a member of the National Assembly, it is our duty to also speak for Nigerians. This is about the people, the people come first before political parties.<\/p>\n
Our focus should not be on only oil, we have gold, coal, iron ore, limestone, Bitumen and several others. If we tap from all of these, there will be a supersonic economy boom.<\/p>\n
\u201cMassive employments, large scale investments and most fundamental, this incessant recourse to taking humongous loans to finance our budget will be fully addressed.<\/p>\n
Earlier, PASAN National Vice President, South-South, Comrade Louis Okeleke reminded the lawmaker that his ascension from the State Assembly to the National Assembly was laced with huge expectations, especially from the South-South.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on your track records in the past, we expect that you would do even better at the National Assembly, \u201che added.<\/p>\n
Others on the entourage included; Comfort Otuene, (Chairman, PASAN, Rivers State), Amonia Amaso, (Secretary PASAN, Rivers State) and Siso Simeon (Ex Officio, South-South Zone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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