Residents of Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have embarked on a peaceful protest to request the Nigerian Agip Oil Company to construct a two-kilometer access road to its oilfields in the area.
Hundreds of community members, who sang solidarity songs and danced around the riverside settlement, made the demand during an advocacy rally at Ikarama on Monday. Speaking at the event, the monarch of the community, Chief Herbertson Alfred, bemoaned a scenario where officials of Agip pass through neighbouring communities in Rivers State to access its Ikarama oilfields, a distance of approximately 16 kilometers.
He said that the practice made it difficult for the community to monitor movements of unscrupulous people, whom he claimed, often vandalised pipelines at the oilfields, to create the wrong impression that Ikarama people were vandals. Energy Mix
