IOC’s operating in the Niger Delta Region should relocate headquarters to operational base- Gbagi

  

    FORMER Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has expressed reservation over the failure and negligence of International Oil Companies, IOC’s operating in the Niger Delta Region to comply with the directive by the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo for them to relocate their headquarters to their operational bases in the Region.

   Olorogun Gbagi, represented by Orok Duke, made the observation in his opening remarks at the maiden regional ethnic youth conference, organized by Niger Delta Youth Council of Nigeria, NDYCN, in partnership with Niger Delta ethnic nationalities at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

    While noting that there is need to allow for resource control and allow states to harness and have control of their resources he was emphatic Niger Delta region has not benefited from the resources God has blessed them with since the discovery and exploration of crude oil in the fifties.

  The Former Minister of State for Education said with the present situation of things and the plights of the Niger Delta Region there is a burning need for restructuring and the implementation of the recommendations of the National Confab report.