Mr. Torke Ekpetun, Youth President
of Agbidiama community, Ekeremor LGA in Bayelsa has advocated peace amongst oil
communities to attract development and improve standard of living.
Ekpetun said in an interview on
Tuesday that the greatest problems facing oil communities were disunity and
selfish community leadership agenda which has made development elude oil rich
communities across the state.
Ekpetun, who was recently
inaugurated in office said he would pursue a policy of unity amongst the people
and ensure that International Oil Companies in the area would work with
community leadership for common good.
He noted that disunity amongst the
oil communities was an ‘ill wind’ that does no good to anyone and provides
opportunity for selfless leaders to emerge and usurp the commonwealth of the
people for selfish ends.
He assured oil firms oerating in
Ekeremor area of Bayelsa that under his leadership, youth restiveness would be
tackled as efforts are underway to re-orientate the youths and get them to
learn new skills to make them competitive.
The youth leader expressed
displeasure over the divisive activities
of the former youth president and the outgone Community Development Chairman of Egbemo-Angalabiri Community..
He regretted the decision of the
past youth leadership of Egbemo-Angalabiri to ignore the leadership of
Agbidiama Community in the signing of an agreement with an oil services firm
for a building project in Clough Creek flow station in 2019.
He observed that such action is
capable of threatening the peaceful co-existence of Agbidiama and Egbemo-Angalabiri
communities and creating crises between the communities and the oil
companies.
Ekpetun called on oil firms to
investigate the issues raised and ensure that there is no re-0ccurence, adding
that Agbidiama and Egbemo-Angalabiri communities are joint hosts of Opukushi,
Tunu, Clough Creek, Dodo North and Cambo Oil Fields and have always gone into joint
agreement with IOCs willing to execute projects in the area.
He expressing optimism that both
communities will have a robust working relationship that will engender peace
and rapid socio economic development between them in the coming years.
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