THE Federal Government has told South-South states that multinational oil companies will not relocate their headquarters to the Niger Delta region because peace cannot be guaranteed.
The government said if the place remained insecure, investment would continue to be elusive as no oil company would agree to go there.The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, stated these in his speech obtained by journalists on Sunday in Abuja, which was delivered after his induction as patron and conferment of the Peace Ambassador award on him by the Niger Delta Non-Violence Agitators Forum.
“We must bring peace to the Niger Delta. It’s our duty to bring peace to the Niger Delta. Sometimes, we are worried that investment opportunities are not coming to the Niger Delta. But we must realise that it’s our activities that will determine whether these opportunities will come or not.
Is there peace in the state ever they locate their headquarter? Why would they continue to drill our oil in state of insecurity? Yet tell us to peaceful before they locate their headquarter in the Niger Delta region.
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