Omo-Agege reacts as NNPC speaks on relocation of gas companies

TRACKING>>- Deputy Senate president Omo-Agege has faulted the NNPC over its reaction on the relocation of gas companies

– Omo-Agege had recently urged oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region to relocate their headquarters to the region

– But in its response, the NNPC says it has no plan to relocate its subsidiary, Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) outside the Niger Delta region

Deputy Senate president Omo-Agege has revealed his reasons for calling for the relocation headquarters of oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region.

According to the Senate president, the issue has been the focus of agitations in the region for sometime now.

“The issue, it must be stressed, was the focus of a peaceful youthful protest by Niger Delta youths earlier in January this year at the premises of the NGC and this disrupted the activities of the gas firm until an official from the Delta state government and other stakeholders intervened and normalcy was restored. This particular event was widely reported and it was given ample coverage in The Guardian newspaper of January 8, 2019 with the title “Delta youths protest against planned relocation of gas company.”

Recall that the deputy Senate president through Yomi Odunuga, his special adviser on media and publicity in a statement in Abuja, said said that there was need for oil companies that left the region to return, given the prevailing peace and accelerating development in the region.

He reiterated his concern about the alleged plot to move the headquarters of the Nigerian Gas Company Ltd. in Ekpan-Warri to Abuja.

And in its reaction, the spokesman of the corporation, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement issued in Abuja, reassured the host communities and all stakeholders in the region that nothing of sort was in the plan of NNPC.

Meanwhile, Tracknews.ng had reported that the deputy Senate president, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, said that no Nigerian will regret the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term because the president loves Urhobos and Nigerians.