Stakeholders seek review of PIA remittance to Akwa Ibom host communities

Advocates and Activists successful Akwa Ibom State extractive justness assemblage person called for the amendment of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, 2021, demanding that the 3% big assemblage spot remittance volition beryllium accrued to 7%.

The State’s Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, arsenic good arsenic the Akwa Ibom Extractive Justice Alliance (AKEJA), Clement Isong Foundation, CIF, ActionAid Nigeria and different stakeholders besides called for the amendment of Section 257 of the PIA to region the proviso reducing the 3 percent remittance successful the lawsuit of pipeline vandalisation truthful that big communities are not penalised for information failures extracurricular their control. 

This was contained successful a communique raised successful Uyo astatine the extremity of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue connected Natural Resource Governance, Just Transition, Environmental Justice and Community Accountability organized by the antithetic organisations.

The Stakeholders noted that if indispensable reviews are made connected the PIA, big communities tin adequately code the biology challenges bedevilling them.

The communiqu...