EDO STATE OIL AND GAS PRODUCING AREA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (EDSOGPADEC) HAVE BECOME A BIG FRAUD TO THE OIL AND GAS PRODUCING AREA IN EDO STATE.

Hon Fidelix Okunzuwa
former Orhionmwon EDSOGPADEC Commissioner

 

By Marxist Eghaghe Fame

one those EDSOGPADEC abandoned Project
in Orhionmwon LGA in Edo State.

The EDSOGPADEC commission is now more of fraud other than development to the Oil and Gas producing area in the Edo State due to the high rate of uncompleted projects that is being littered everywhere in the Oil and Gas producing Communities especially Orhionmwon Local government area under the administration of Barr Vincent Uwadiae and Hon Fidelix Okunzuwa beginning from the year 2011 till date.

It is no longer new that the Edo state Oil and gas producing area development commission (EDSOGPADEC) was set up in 2010 as a rescue commission to rescue the Aminu Kanus in the Oil and gas producing area of Edo state from social economic and political menace so as to leverage the suffering of the wretched of the earth. But so unfortunate the Commission was left in wrong hands,those who do not see man inhumanity to man as a grievous offense against mankind. It is for this reason the management board of EDSOGPADEC prefer to rather share among the selves 80% out of  the total allocation of #400million that is budgeted to be used for the development of the three Oil producing areas in Edo state,which include Orhionmwon,Ikpoba Okha and Ovia South Local government area of Edo State and spend only meager 20% for work. If the management board of EDSOGPADEC fees this is a cheap black mail as they have always accused Social Critics like us for, they should account for all their spending since 2011-2015 because we have written to them demanding documents covering all their project done within the above mentioned years as permissible under the freedom of information act which they have refused to let out to us. We have not relented in our struggle as we have the intellectual Capacity to tell the board members that they've done nothing in our communities compare to what they receive from milking our communities.  members of Orhionmwon Liberation Movement we continue to go about our gradual international Campaign peacefully over the marginalization of our people just like the Ogoni people of Bayelsa once did owing to the declarations of their various bills of rights.,

We stand to be corrected by EDSOGPADEC board authorities if our campaigns for our people Social Welfare and better living condition as people from the Oil and Gas producing areas of the state is wrong,but before then, they must put their house in order to answer my few puzzle questions below:

1. What was the mission statement of EDSOGPADEC and how much have the Commission received since the inception of the board?

2. What have they done so far to rescue the Commission from intense poverty state and ramshackle dwellings because the last time i visited my Village in Orhionmwon in May this year, there was still no electricity, no good road, no youth empowerment and employment, no water, no Good health care facilities and more. Yet the Commission receives 400million yearly.

Benin Abraka Road linking Urerhue,Umoghun-
Nokhua, Oroghoro,Ologbo and other interior
communities in Orhionmwon LGA

3. How many youths or able body young men have the Commission helped out of the hard street engulfed in the height of unemployment and poverty when there is so much to spend on human capacity  building to ensure a safer Society especially for the ever expanding number of Unemployed and unhappy youths from the Oil and gas region.

Whether they like it or not, Our Stand will continue to be that they should develop our land, empowered and employ our youths in the Oil sector as we also want to be part of the formulation of EDSOGPADEC policy making process for the development of the Oil and Gas communities in Edo State. Failure for the commission to do this, we shall have no other Option other than to make our noble and justifiable declaration know to the entire world by carefully enlisting our several bills of rights from different Oil and Gas producing areas of the State because I do not care anymore if I become another Kenule Saro Wiwa fighting the liberation course for my people because no government can exist without the consent of the people.