The Emughan Shell Landlords and Stakeholders Forum in Abua/Odual Local Government Area is at loggerheads with the state Ministry of Chieftaincy and Community Affairs over the inauguration of the Abua/Odual Cluster Development Board.
The board was recently inaugurated by the Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Barrister Silvanus Nwankwo.
However, some members of the community, who embarked on a peaceful protest outside the premises of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at the Industrial Area, Port Harcourt, said that they have nothing to do with the ABOLGA Cluster Board, and demanded for the establishment of an acceptable board.
The protesters regretted that the ABOLGA Cluster Board was inaugurated against pending court injunction.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, a member of the Emughan Landlords and Stakeholders Forum, Mr Kwane Anselem Okese, said that the forum ‘’publicly rejects the fiat decision of the Honourable Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs as regards the development projects in our communities, knowing full well that there are pending matters in law courts’’.
They, however, commended SPDC for embarking on several development projects in the area, including a cottage hospital, 3-kilometre road, amongst others, and stressed the need for the company to carry the landlord families along in the scheme of things.
However, when contacted on phone, the Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Barrister Silvanus Nwankwo said that his attention was not drawn to any court order as at the time of the inauguration.
Nwankwo said that Emughan alone cannot have a cluster board as that of Abua/Odual was more embracing because it comprised all communities in the area.
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