ASAMABIRI COMMUNITY DECRIES OVER 22 YEARS OF NEGLECT BY AGIP COMPANY NOW OANDO

Asamabiri, a co-host community to Nigerian Agip Oil Company facility now Oando in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are appealing to Federal and State Governments to intervene on a twenty two years of total neglect and denier of its statutory benefits.

The community position was disclosed by its Paramount Ruler, Chief Joseph Odoni during a Protest to the Agip now Oando facility on Wednesday the 2nd of October, 2024.

According to Monarch, all necessary steps taken by the oil bearing community to resolve the impasse has been futile, alleging that the Italian giant company has been favourable to Biseni community its co-hosts.

Comrade S.B Dorgu and other stakeholders who led the protest to the Asamabiri/Biseni Oil Head facility described the condition of the community as total neglect of a hosts company that its natural resources has been exploited by the company.

The community leaders also call on Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, the Apex Ijaw Socio-cultural Organisation, Ijaw National Congress and its youth body, Ijaw Youth Council to address the injustice the company has subjected Asamabiri to in the last two decades.

Other native of the agrarian community who participated in the hours of protest against the insensitivity of the company endorsed the  community leadership demand for Agip now Oando to employ skilled and unskilled workers from the community.

Others include provision of basic social amenities like Hospital, Pipe Borne water, Townhall and electricity.

However, the Station Coordinator of Samabiri/Biseni Oil Well, Bayelsa State, Felix Egbezor who received the protesters called for calm, assuring that the grievances of Asamabiri people will be formally communicated to the company management at its Headquarters through a comprehensive correspondence