Friday, July 3rd, 2015

A petition by Guild Presidents’ Forum on Oil Governance (GPFOG) to the IGG regarding the lack of transparency in the awarding of and implementation of the contract of the Resettlement Action Plan

Guild presidents, youth leaders from universities and AFIEGO presented a petition to the IGG to investigate why the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) has failed to resettle refinery-affected people for over four years. The petitioners also want the IGG to investigate the discriminatory resettlement process; land and houses are being given to only 46 households of the 93 families that asked for relocation. Additionally, the petitioners want the IGG to investigate why the refinery-affected people are being resettled in a camp in a violation of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) report. The report recommends against resettling refinery-affected families in camps to avoid isolating the people and making their integration difficult.  A petition to the IGG