Members of the Ijaw Youths Congress have decried the planned relocation of the fabrication component of the front end engineering design for the Nigerian liquified natural gas train seven NLNG 7 project from Bonny Island in Rivers State to Lagos.
They described the proposed move as shocking because it would deny the people of the area employment opportunities and promised to resist it.
The stakeholders wondered why the NLNG is planning the relocation after exposing the people of Niger Delta to years of environmental degradation only to add value to the Lagos economy.
The Chairman of the Natural Gas Association of Nigeria PENGASSAN, Port Harcourt branch Azubuike Azubuike said that since labour is mobile, NLNG should bring the experts to the Niger Delta region.
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Bonny is home to the Nigeria liquified natural gas company NLNG with a production output of twenty-two million tonnes per annum expected to increase to thirty million metric tonnes per annum when the train 7 expansion plant project is completed.
Editor: Tunde Orebiyi
