Guardian
12 August 2011
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TRADITIONAL rulers and community leaders who are hosts of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC’s) OML 30 field in Delta State yesterday asked the Federal Government to intervene and reverse the sale of OML 30 in order to avert a possible breakdown of law and order in the community.
At a meeting of the stakeholders at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli, HRM Oharisi III, the monarchs and leaders said the SPDC lacked the right to sell lands leased to them by communities to another operator without their consent.
They said several communities leased their lands to SPDC for an initial term of 20 years and that the terms had expired twice over and that the SPDC was now trespassing on the land without the renewal of all expired leases.
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