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Ijaw group, IPDI Knocks Timipre Sylva, Says Oil Firms Must Relocate to Niger Delta

Ijaw group, IPDI Knocks Timipre Sylva, Says Oil Firms Must Relocate to Niger Delta



Niger Delta Rights protection group, the  Ijaw People's Development Initiative IPDI on Wednesday April 21st  2021 berated the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva who asserted that, "asking oil companies operating in the country to relocate to the Niger Delta without first addressing the security concerns in the area would escalate crude oil production cost".

The spokesperson of the group, Comrade Ezekiel Kagbala FPR in Warri condemned the unguided statements that emanated from the minister,  adding that his statements is capable of putting the region in bad light before investors and the world.

Kagbala said, "Niger Delta is peaceful, business friendly and accommodating to multi-National companies".

 He added that the people of the region cannot be blamed for the failure of the federal government to provide security in the country.

He said that It was  unfortunate that Timipre Sylva has joined the failed federal government to make false expressions in error.

"Sylva must know that youths restiveness in the region started when his failed Buhari administration thwarted the region's opportunities for development".  

He urged Sylva to retrace his steps and take back his words by telling the federal government to create enabling environment for multinationals to relocate back to the region.

IPDI recalled that, the minister spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, at the special town hall meeting organised by the state government and the ministry of petroleum resources with chiefs, youths and other stakeholders in the state.
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