Meanwhile, the Swamp and Land Area Landlords of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, have threatened to shut down the operations of the multinational oil company in the Niger Delta region over alleged marginalisation of the people.The landlords, who accused Agip of embarking on ‘ethnic cleansing’ against its host communities, lamented the alleged persistent and continuous marginalisation of people from the swamp and land areas of the company operations in its managerial cadre of the company.
The statement, which was signed by Onisoya James Odum and Temple Sambo, chairman and secretary of the group respectively, threatened to declare a force majure on the company’s operations should the a cabal within the company don’t rescind its decision by reinstating and recalling the affected staff. The statement reads in part: “The best brains from the Niger Delta were being removed and replaced by staff from the Igbo speaking areas of the country.