{"id":113379,"date":"2024-07-23T04:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T03:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=113379"},"modified":"2024-07-23T04:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T03:37:41","slug":"blackout-protesters-to-shutdown-78000-crude-oil-production-facility-in-okerenkoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/blackout-protesters-to-shutdown-78000-crude-oil-production-facility-in-okerenkoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout: Protesters to shutdown\u00a078,000 crude oil production\u00a0facility\u00a0in Okerenkoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1805310298780076873\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesters in large numbers from Okerenkoko, Egwa, Bayan communities, in the Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri south West local government area ( today ) yesterday stormed Jones Creek flow station in several speed boats,<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">threatening to shut down crude oil production if their demands were not met by the Joint Venture operators of the oil mining lease, OML, within three months.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters among their demand was that their communities should be connected to the gas turbine powering the Jones Creek platform, stressing that the communities had been in darkness for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>They chanted solidarity songs in the Ijaw language, vowing to make real their threat to shut down the flow station after the three-month ultimatum handed operators of the place if their demands were not met.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the placards they carried read: \u201cNPDC JV No light, No Operation, Give us light\u201d, and\u201d Okerenkoko Community is tired of darkness.\u201d Give us light.\u201d,\u201dLet there be light in Okerenkoko\u201d, and \u201cEnough is enough of darkness.\u201d And several other inscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the protesters who spoke to the media said they would continue the protest until their demands were met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is light issue that brought us here. As we are here if darkness is sweet, they should shut the flow station so that we will stay in darkness with them.\u201d, one of them, Ms Ene said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not supposed to be in darkness. The highest we are giving them is, three months we should have light day and night. \u201c, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re suffering. We don\u2019t have drinking water. Only if rain falls before we can get water to drink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation has affected the Nigeria Maritime University, NMU. Students now go about in search of where to charge their mobile phones. Students can no longer study as many are leaving the town already. We are suffering again because there\u2019s no network from telecommunication providers. The JV operators have refused to give us light. Please, give us light or we shut you down completely\u201d, another female protester said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the protesters recalled that at a time they relied on community efforts to power a plant they had.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in large numbers from Okerenkoko, Egwa, Bayan communities, in the Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri south West local government area ( today ) yesterday stormed Jones Creek flow station in several&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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