The leadership of the Western Zone of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), on Tuesday, announced to begin scrutinising oil companies operating in the zone, to ascertain their levels of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in their areas of operations.
Dropping the hint while speaking to journalists in Benin City, the newly elected secretary of the zone comprising Edo, Delta and Ondo States, Omaghomi Olu-Derimon, disclosed that what many of the oil companies declared on paper did not tally with what was evident on the ground in the various oil-producing communities.
The IYC scribe also frowned at the continued running of Niger Delta intervention agencies by interim leadership.
“It is part of our mandate to scrutinise the operations of the oil companies on their corporate social responsibility to their immediate environment and how they have impacted on their communities; we are going to be evaluating their operations and we are going to do that as a pressure group to promote the Ijaw people and that is one of our mandates.
“It is good that the oil companies get this information so that when we are coming they will understand and it will not be strange to them because most times, they come to the media to say they have done this and that for the community but what is in the papers are different from what is on the ground.
“One of our mandates is to carry out this scrutiny of IOCs operating in Ijaw communities in the three states under our jurisdiction. IYC is ready to partner with the government of the day for the development of Ijaw land,” Olu-Derimon explained.
On the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and other intervention agencies, Olu-Derimon said: “The appointment of a substantive Board for the NDDC is long overdue and I think we don’t want to make any fight from but we want to inform PMB that he should do the needful for the good of the Niger Delta.
“We are not giving any ultimatum for now but for the good of the Niger Delta people, give us a substantive Board but because in recent time, it is appalling that anything that has to do with the Niger Delta has been on interim leadership, the Presidential Amnesty Programme is being headed by an interim administrator, NDDC is the same thing for crying out loud, we cannot continue like that. He should appoint a substantive Board,” the IYC leader demanded.
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