The House of Representatives said it
will revoke oil block licenses of operators who did not follow due process in
obtaining their licenses.
The House Ad hoc Committee on Oil
Prospecting License and Oil Exploration led by Hon. Gideon Wani spoke
yesterday at Idama platform in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State
when the committee visited Belemaoil Producing Limited.
He also said it would support the
people of the Niger Delta to be involved in doing business on petroleum
products.
He noted that it would be a form of
encouragement to retrieve licenses that were not properly obtained by some
companies and hand them over to indigenous operators, adding that when such
licenses are revoked, they would be given to people from Niger Delta region who
have interest oil business.
Wani said: “We have been mandated by
the House of Representatives to investigate all holders of prospecting and
exploration licences. We want to know the number of licenses and the number of
companies operating with them. We also want to find out if the process of
obtaining the licences were followed.
“Niger Deltans have not been doing
business on oil. “We want to return some of this oil blocks to the people of
this region. This is to allow people of this area to also do business.
Belemaoil is in a good business to do this business because it is owned by somebody
from the Niger Delta.”
Chairman of National Youth Council
of Nigeria (NYCN), Mr. Sukubo Sara-Igbe said if more opportunities were given
to the people of the area to do oil business, the agitations in the region
would be tamed.
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