ExxonMobil Oil Spill: Fishermen, Youths Revolt At Ibeno

The oil companies in Nigerian & indeed Africa should play by the international standard rules as they do in the western world. Please the communities they work in should be developed.

Sahara is reporting the true storry,I am from one of these LGA,the pronounce oil compensation have tear the 4 local government appart.Villager accusing the Local Government chairmen of taken away the funds.
The chairman of Onna LGA(Owoidighe Ekpotai) was kidnapp and a policeman died in the incident,
Youths and councilors in Eket petition the chairman(Emmanuel Okon Udoh),chairman of Esit Eket(Pastor Victor Bassey Isangedighe) and Ibeno LGA counterpart(Regina Ekpe) ran to Uyo the state capital for their dear life,
helpless youths are searching for who to accuse, but WHERE IS THE MONEY ?

SR: Thanks for the forum. Please know that this so call public affairs departments (image managers) would attempt to buy this forum so they can control what story remains on the front burner. Remember we use to rely on Thisday News? Now I hardly remember it. If SR allows the forces of demand and supply of individuals and not money, they'll remain like perhaps Tribune but if they allow money bags to buy them over, SR will be a one generation business. It will pass with the founder, like Thisday.

Please keep the ExxonMobil Oil Spill Story on the front burner. BP New Orleans occurred in April 2010 and we are still preoccupied with it. ExxonMobil/Ibono story can not go away. We will ask you about and for it.

What a big shame. The oil spill in the gulf of Mexico was big news for months, however an oil spill in Nigerian waters doesn't make the big news networks? Something is wrong somewhere! Our fucking leaders are conniving with these multi nationals to enrich themselves whilst peoples livelyhood is been destroyed. The president should be reading the fuckers the riot act!! Look at what Venezuela did to the oil companies operating in their country.

by stopping council chairman from controlling oil
spill compensation funds,the governor wants to
strangulate everyone except his cronies financially.
when he was commissioner in ex governor attah's
regime,he was allowed free hand to make money and
was travelling to the uk every two weeks.he thinks
with his wicked manipulations,he will have an easy
sail in 2011 elections.he pretends not to know that
the ALMIGHTY GOD is watching him.he should learn
from what happened to Abacha.

@Anonymous..I like your piece,you have said it all,you,ve warned the Glorias and Udom Inoyo,s..a word is enough for the wise
As for Akpabio who is well known for his Ostrich greed and divide and rule system and lying tongue,the wrath of God will catch up with you and your entire family soon...BEWARE!!!!

Jonathan should not pay lip services to these oil spills in the south south. He should set up a body or a ministry to permanently take care of this very worrying issue in the Niger Delta. One visit to the area is not enough-oil is the main-stay of the nations economy-hence the need for us to start thinking of introducing fiscal federalism in the country-the spills will remain with the ppl till death do us part-while the shots are being called by the beneficiaries of the oil blocks in the former old regions, the new oil producing zones slave it out for them-yet we are being told that we are not as strong as George Walker Bush of USA, to be president of Nigeria.So, we must vote for our former slave-masters like IBB and Buhari-that Nigeria for u-

It is a pity that American can come to Nigeria flout as law with impunity even with the aid of our own government. But i bet you guys will not continue for so long if you must continue to do business in these communities. Thank you.

Remember when you were a hustling lawyer in Lagos? Remember your brother Isong was a PR manager in Mobil at the time? Now all the glitz and glamore he oppressed you with is gone. Do not forget what life was like then. Do not think because your brother was not as wealthy as you now are, you may not end up like him or worse. Remember the late Akpan Isemin was once a Governor of Akwa Ibom. So was Nyong Isong of AK/CR combined. Remember, ones upon a time they were very wealthy people in AK/CR. They were the likes of Victor Akan who actually brought light with his wealth to the people and they was also Esuene whose family continue to reap of his goodwill decades after his demise. But there were also the likes of Jebs, the Dr. Paper guy, Samphil, etc., who ruined the only AK/CR bank to date, Marchantile Bank with bad loans. The had wealth but nothing is left now. Not even their children have carried on their opulence.

My brother, goodwill will follow you if you "toyo nte ufok ake bagha and work in good faith for the people of Ibono by ensuring that XOM meets their contractual and moral responsibilities. Just like BP is beholden to do in New Orleans.

Gloria Essien Dannar, before you there were the likes of Adeyemi Wilson and Cicilia Onitiri. They was Isong Akpabio and Susan Eshiet (Ibono), the sell out. In whatever Title or guise you come in, you'll all end up in the same mediocre retirement after cheating the very people who formed the base for you to step on. Ibono will still be there when you and your current short sighted, "Locals" "Country Managers" complete your XOM cycle of use and dump. Newsflash XOM uses and dumps locals. "Locals" is what they call you all. Local have have a short shelve life. After they hit the top in Nigeria it ends. (Your position in Nigeria is equivalent to a Senior Manager and that of your EDs = Director in the Corpoaration... not any way close to executive) Whereas the expats go on to become VPs in the Corporation and the skyes is their limit thereafter.

BP pays pre-settlement, settlement and post settlement to every Tom and Harry, Nancy and Jenny in New Orleans; they pay to clean-up salvaged wild life; they pay to replace killed wild life; they pay taxes to local city council and state for loss of tax income.

In Ibono, you and your Country Management are mocking around looking to help XOM avoid its moral and contractual responsibility because you can lobby in Abuja. Your mates in Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta have fought their way into mainstream Nigerian policy making and executive position. You are fighting your people to earn a plaque and a group photograph with a white man. Newsflash ... that is all your predecessors have to show for their stupidity and that is all you'll have very soon.

Suggestion, wisen up. XOM has the power to fight even the entity called Nigeria with or without you. They fought Venezuela and even other stronger entities. Akwa Ibom, Ibono can become better with you or can remain backward with you... Your choice!

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became celebrated after her service to motherland not before regardless of her professional and academic laurels, so is Oby Ezekwelize or even Nuhu Ribadu. Wisen up - you are nothing without a happy people at the base regardless of your profesional or academic laurels. They are a thousand and one Akwa Ibom and Ibono genius who can beat you in every measure including wealth and affluence but just have not gotten the opportunity to make a differnce.

The same goes for Udom Inoyo, Ide and the likes. Wisen up people, its just a job. Many of us do more professionally than you can ever or will do. But we just do not have the make or mar opportunity you have at present.

Will you retire and start chasing "kid witches" when your fortune declines; or would it be young girls, government contracts etc., or will you retire to move into mainstream and make laudable contributions. Only the people you stump on today can give you that base; whether they are unlettered or poor.

EXXON-MOBIL SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS CANNOT BE DONE IN THEIR COUNTRY U.S.A. THEIR GOVT. ALMOST SENT SHELL PACKING BECAUSE OF OIL SPILL. WHY THEN IS NIGERIA DIFFERENT? THE GOV. OF AKWA IBOM STATE SHOULD NOTE THAT HE SHOULD STOP DESTROYING THOSE UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP BECAUSE OF GAIN. ENOUGH OF THIS OSTRICH ATTITUDE. LET THE YOUTHS AND THE PEOPLE OF IBENO NOT GIVE-UP UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE WITH PROPER COMPENSATION.