Stakeholders have tasked companies doing business in the Niger Delta Region, to interface regularly with their host communities to curb restiveness and foster progress. This was a key recommendation at an interactive forum in Port Harcourt on protecting the Trans Niger pipeline.
The forum which had traditional leaders, women and youths in attendance, looked at ways that would gender cordiality between the Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria limited and communities in the Niger Delta Region, to address lapses and seek ways for advanvement. King of Eleme, Dr. Philip Obele, while decrying the level of pollution in that area, called for immediate attention to the area.
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He said the pollution in Ebubu and Nsisioken calls for immediate action. A former lawmaker in Bayelsa State, Madam Ingo Iwowari, in her submission, urged Companies operating in the region to embark on needs assessment in their host communities regularly as well as to ensure a cordial relationship with the communities.
In his remark, Community Relations Consultant, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, Dr. Akpos Mezeh expressed delight at the economic progress which the Trans Niger pipeline has contributed to the Nation, assuring that operations would be done with the host communities taken into consideration.
Stakeholders across the Niger Delta Region, including Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo and Abia States, attended the forum.
