By ONYEKACHUKWU MELUWA, Warri
The Host Communities (Oil&Gas bearing Communities) on Wednesday August 9 appealed to the Federal Government should allow the body to submit names of youths from Oil bearing communities for the oil and gas
facilities pipeline surveillance jobs to avoid any fraud, Daily Post
can report.
HOSTCOM Isoko Chapter made the call in a chat with newsmen in Isoko on Wednesday.
They noted that the youths from the oil bearing communities are
those that are capable for the jobs.
The group also dismissed reports that youths in the nine Niger Delta
States has been forwarded to the Office of nine Niger Delta States had
forwarded names of affected youths in the area to the Amnesty Office
and the Presidential Villa for oil pipeline surveillance jobs.
Isoko Chapter which was reacting to a publication credited to
the Special Adviser on Niger Delta and Presidential Amnesty Program,
Brig.Gen. Paul Boroh said,”There is no record of community leaders in
Delta State that has submitted names of youths from the Niger Delta
Oil bearing communities to the office of Special Adviser to the
President on Niger Delta, and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh over the pipe lines surveillance
job.”
The Chairman Isoko Chapter of HOSTCOM, Comrade Morrister Idibra
expressed dismay over reports (print & electronic) credited to Brig. Gen.
Paul Boroh wherein he allegedly claimed that the nine Niger Delta
States had forwarded names of affected youths in the area.
Idibra claimed that the claims by Brig. Gen. Boroh is another claim to
its office is another claim to deny the people real participation.
Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh had allegedly in the report that the names of
youths in the nine Niger Delta States has forwarded names of the
affected for the pipeline surveillance jobs.
Idibra warned that the Special Adviser on Niger Delta and Presidential
Amnesty Program, Brig.Gen. Paul Boroh’s concern himself with the
Amnesty job and stop delving into the pipeline surveillance jobs
stressing that the HOSTCOM family isoko chapter will not accept
anything short of what it has proposed to the Federal Government.
Idibra lamented that this was the same manner the amnesty programme
was conducted stressing that till date, no Isoko youth has been
included in the amnesty programme.
Idibra noted that the pipe line surveillance job is purely the affairs
of HOSTCOM and the Federal Government pointing out that it should not
be treated like the
He condemned plans by the Federal Government to include those who
abducted the students of the Lagos State Model School who demanded to
be included in the Amnesty Programme as a condition for the release of
the kids.
