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PIB: Anything Less Than 10% For Host Communities Will Not be Accepted – Governor Wike

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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PIB: Anything Less Than 10% For Host Communities Will Not be Accepted - Governor Wike | Daily Report Nigeria
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Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has cautioned the National Assembly that anything less than a 10 percent fund allocation in the Petroleum Industry Bill that will not be accepted by host communities.

Daily Report Nigeria gathered that Governor Wike also emphasized on the necessity of the bill to clearly state specific developmental projects the allocated fund should be spent on, in a bid to development host communities effectively.

Wike made the call on Tuesday when the members of the National Assembly Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill visited him at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.

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He explained that oil-bearing communities have long suffered loss of livelihood, good drinking water, and have their sociocultural life disrupted because of the insensitivity of the International Oil Companies (IOCs).

“It unfortunate that people produce oil but they live in poverty. I believe that this Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) committee will make recommendations of how certain percent must be given to the host oil communities.

“There are issues of education and health. Don’t just say 10 percent to the oil host communities. It must be tied to specific projects so that whoever is in charge will know it.

“So that he or she does not have the prerogative to initiate, like during Christmas, to buy and give 20 thousand bags of rice and tag it as project.

“Let it also not be that host community people will have this money, and you begin to see assassinations among themselves.”

“I have found out that part of the problem we have in communities is that they allow these oil companies to divide them. They cause crisis among them; divide and rule. That is the pattern of IOCs, particularly Shell.”

According to the governor, the mistakes found with the act establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) should be avoided because it did not specify what projects the Commission should embark on in the Niger Delta.

“This same thing that has happened to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) should not happen to the issues of host communities in PIB.

“If in the NDDC act, they were able to tie the money that will be coming to specific projects, it would have developed the people of Niger Delta. And you won’t be having people fainting at the National Assembly.

“NDDC will leave their job and begin to buy vehicles for police, army, and asphalting barracks. Is it what NDDC is meant to do? That is where we have lost it.”

Speaking further, the governor emphasised the need for the bill when passed, to be signed and not go the way of the Electoral bill that the president refused to assent it.

“I hope this bill will also not be like the Electoral Act, after you pass it, they’ll keep it for months. Later they’ll say they can’t assent to it.

“Then the presidency will throw it back to you and you will keep quiet. That will then show that what you’re doing is only for the interest of your party and not the interest of Nigeria.

“Otherwise, you’ll insist that it is signed. I hope you’ll have the courage to do what is right and this is the time that Nigerians require you to be strong, firm, and do what will move this country forward.”

In his speech, the Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly Committee who led the delegation, Mr. Victor Nwokolo Onyemaechi said the committee was in Rivers State to have a town hall meeting with stakeholders to resolve issues of what should be allocated to host communities in the PIB.

“A lot of people have been misinformed about the issue of host communities. Some have said that host communities are related to hostility of the producing communities. But with what they have seen today and in the last four days, have shown to be negative. It has proved negative in the sense that we walked round over 800 meters about three days ago and they saw that even in dry season, we have to use wood as bridge to get to where Shell is exploring and making all their money.

“They also saw the impact of Shell petroleum operation to people’s means of livelihood where their farmland were burnt and palm trees were burnt to ashes. They can feel it and they can see it.

“Today is not a different story. What we saw today is that a community that is known for fishing, as their means of livelihood, has been brought to a standstill. The boats were there, over 40, 50 boats, lying idle because their water has been fully polluted.

The chairman of the committee also commended Governor Wike for the rapid infrastructural transformation ongoing in Rivers State.

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