Gas city project: Host communities pledge to work together

The communities that make up the $16 billion Ogidigben Gas City (Export Processing Zone) have resolved to stop further acrimony and inciting actions to ensure that the project is peacefully executed.

At a town hall meeting on Thursday in Government House, Asaba, presided over by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, the communities resolved to stop all negative publications against the Ogidigben Gas City project and continue to live peacefully among themselves.

Speaking at the parley, Governor Uduaghan said it was important for the people of the area to see the gas city project as a project which will not only be beneficial to the host communities, the state, and the nation, but also of great importance to the international community.

He observed that all efforts have been made to ensure that the host communities are comfortable with the project, but decried situation where some persons still express their grievances on the pages of newspapers as against roundtable talk.

The governor, who commended the host communities for agreeing to stop all forms of hostilities, set up a fact-finding committee headed by his deputy, Amos Utuama (SAN), to consolidate on the resolutions reached at the town hall meeting