The ongoing rift over the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill by the National Assembly deepened on Saturday as ex-governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State lambasted the senator representing the Bayelsa East Senatorial Distric, Eremienyon Degi, saying the lawmaker should not mix state politics with national issues like the PIB.
He had lamented that while the Buhari-led regime proposed five per cent for the host communities in the original bill sent to the National Assembly, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, while addressing the Senate said approving anything above 2.5 per cent for host communities, would discourage investors.
“It is therefore difficult to understand the basis upon which Senator Degi would come up with such a curious publication accusing Senator Dickson of inciting violence
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