Mkpoikana Udoma
Port Harcourt — Finima community in Bonny Kingdom have this morning blocked the main entrance to the industrial area of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited in Bonny.
Members of the community, numbering over 1000, peacefully singing and dancing the Ibani cultural songs, while displaying placards with different inscriptions, are demanding to be officially recognized as host community to the NLNG.
A Community Leader in Finima, Mr. Dagogo Lambert Brown, said they want the gas multinational to be addressed and recognised as NLNG Finima in Bonny Island and not just NLNG Bonny.
Brown maintained that the Community Content Guidelines CCG, stipulated in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, NOGICD Act should be implemented for the people of Finima, as host community.
He said Finima as the host community, should be given a fair opportunity to participate in the up coming Train-7 project and every other developmetal projects of the company.
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