Hundreds of angry youths from Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, on Tuesday, protested the state government’s alleged refusal to constitute the board of the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (ESOGPADEC).
The placard-carrying protesters observed that the state government had re-constituted some of the boards like the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and expressed worry regarding the purported delay in the re-constitution of ESOGPADEC.
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They claimed that with the non-constitution of the commission’s board after about two years of the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led administration in office, their oil and gas producing communities had been neglected and marginalised in the administration’s development agenda.
A leader of the protesting youths, Osadolor Osegbe, told newsmen that the concerned communities had written several letters to the Government House and the state House of Assembly on the need to reconstitute the commission.
According to him, they were yet to get any response from the relevant authorities, hence the protest to further press home their demand.
Osegbe claimed that Orhionmwon Local Government Area was responsible for 87 per cent of oil production as well as 100 per cent of gas production in Edo State but lamented that “we have been marginalised, exploited and neglected.
“Our people in the communities and villages are suffering from exploitation and environmental degradation as a result of the activities of oil exploration companies,” he added.
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