SOME oil-bearing communities have asked a prospecting company, Geoseimic Survey Limited to pay a compensation of N10 billion for alleged damages to their homes, farms, and aquatic lives by the company’s operations.
The communities youths and women stormed the firm in protest weekend with placards screaming, “Geo Seismic Survey lacks respect for local content”, “We seek Government, Civil Rights Society Intervention”, and “We prefer Mutual Dialogue to Violence”. Youth Leader of Ikot Akan community, Imo Usen, sharing their grievances during the protest, said, “We have through our lawyers written to the management of Geoseimic Survey Ltd to address the havoc caused by their activities in our community but they paid deaf ears.
“The annoying part of it is that the company has completed its assignment for Sterling Global Petrochemical and about leaving without addressing the problems it has caused”.