wirinet:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

bakynes:
All these South South boys just cry like babies. What is the big deal in siting your headquarters in another state. The FG collects the tax anyway not the state govt.

You guys are only thinking like this because it's not your investment, is it not better to site their HQ where they know it is safe for life than an uncertain region. A region that can start bombing and kidnapping tomorrow.

I was in PH in 2015, if you see the convoy of a white man probably an Oil worker you would think it was a Governor or president. This you can't see in Lagos, you will probably just see the White man and his driver or a white man jogging on the road. He knows he is relatively safe and can live life not live life in hiding or with Armed security because of fear of kidnapping.

Do you know how much Chevron and Mobil has spent building their headquarters over the years, you now just want them to abandon the facility and start building another one spending millions of dollars again. They don't think with sentiments like you guys do, they think business wise.

These militants see these kidnapping and facility bombing as business it's no more agitation for a greater Niger Delta.

If relative peace comes to the Niger delta today these Oil companies will naturally relocate back nobody needs to tell them.

uniqueboi:
If there would be no equity and justice in Nigeria then I'm afraid the day of the reckoning is fast approaching. I'm afraid because the minds coming out of the South-South are far more dangerous than what we have witnessed in this country. Militancy would be child's play.
You all keep politicking to favour your dead zones and then rub it on our faces. In due time.

bayelsaowei:
oboy all the oil companies both international and national should bring their head quarters here so that we solve the Niger delta problem real time...
Most especially that useless nnpc and DPR...let them come here...let those malam come and work in the delta so that they behave themselves...nonsense...

rafindo:
I thank this dishonourable members for doing the right thing for once.sentiment apart business are sited where safety is guaranteed and ease of doing business is okay.as far I am concerned the Niger delta is one of the top place in the world where ease of doing business is extinct. With marching ground ideology, aimless so called lazy youth leader that destroy your property for not compensating the boys.pls don't give me that Houston rubbish of having the hqtr of major oil coys.if your are sincere the government provide the necessary and tax rebate for oil coys.Nigeria is the only country where the community shout our oil as if all lands do not belong to the Fgn

Agumbankembu:


Other rep members supported it, majorly reps from SS and SE, but it was shouted down by Gbajabimilo or what is that his name.
Fukktard.

nabiz:
keep quiet my friend if you don't know what to say. who told you Niger deltans ar lazy? which part of the region have u been to? do u know the type of work those guys do to survive? you guys destroy their farm land, and fishing water and other means of living and u are here talking rubbish. what else do you want them to do. how do you want them to survive. imagine destroying and polluting all the land in the north. don't you know that this guys have been surviving even before oil, rubbish

bantudark:


even if you get more nothing will change solong you have criminals like tompolo dokubo and others handling your business....

TonyeBarcanista:

While I agree that Oil Coys should relocate their HQ to Niger Delta, I must also admit that we have the duty of ensuring that the region is safe for these companies.
It is not enough for Ijaw groups and stakeholdera to spit fire against the REPS, what are they doing to dissuade Ijaw and Niger Delta people against kidnapping, blowing of facilities and general perpetration of crimes against the Oil coys? The action of NDA in 2016 and other groups was a bad omen to the region.
There is injustice against our people but we also have our own role to play. Two wrongs don't make a right.

wirinet:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

nengibo:

Leave matter for mathias, everyone understands the dynamics of this hq issue, the Niger delta must correct every issue created by the companies & the politicians, this backward reasoning of always mentioning tompolo & dokubo everytime the deltans ask for their rights is fooling nobody.

bantudark:


it was not the likes of tompolo and dokubo that made that 13% thing possible...

aribisala0:
The issue is not about safety ,that is a lame argument.The reality is that where businesses located headquarters is not governed by LEGISLATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD< ANYWHERE. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I have no objection to oil companies moving but doing so by legislation is very dangerous because of the potential UNINTENDED CONSQUENCES for other non oil businesses and general investment confidence.
It location can be legislated what next who to employ. That they must build churches or mosques in their premises. There is no need to introduce unnnecessary complexity through the backdoor. The argument remains about resource control and what percentage of oil proceeds goes to the communities. That is what should be addressed.Once the communities are getting what is their right if the copanies like they can locate in Cameroon if it pays them. The real issue is about resource control so don't transfer frustration to oil companies

First if such legislation can apply to oil industry what next ??
Dangote should move to Kogi?Chivita should move to Benue or Oyo , Companies making soap should move to where they get palm oil etc .
There is nothing like Niger Delta in our constitution so where a company is operating in 4 states where should it go to which one.

This is just unnecesssary sentimentality and those pushing for it are isinformed about tax. Oil companies do not pa tax to Lagos State.In fact ALL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA PAY TAX TO THE FG regardless of where the headquarters are located.

LASG get PAYE personal income tax of workers resident in Lagos.The quuestion is in a company like Mobil or Shell what percentage of their workers are outside their operation area in Lagos?

Bridget95:
your narrative is different from the subject matter.

These oil companies are taking resources from the land of people of the delta under FG arrangement,they are supposed to show sincerity by fully based in the delta instead of being selfish,self centred and exploitative from a distance where they recruit none indegines to work in the delta and pay royalties to states where their offices are.

janellemonae:


See lies. And someone will believe this.

Pls show the rollcall of those DT supported & rejected this bill. Also show d video of gbakabiamilla shouting it down.

Nonsense!!

nnokwa042:
u be ewu jalingo and where is Nigeria getting her 2 million barrels of oil day ? OK from Ogun state and jigawa state abi ? Isi adiro GI Mma ma ncha ncha ,oil money from naija delta is good for building rail way from Lagos to kano right? But for oil companies to move thier offices to Niger delta then u remembered that ND is not safe

rafindo:
I thank this dishonourable members for doing the right thing for once.sentiment apart business are sited where safety is guaranteed and ease of doing business is okay.as far I am concerned the Niger delta is one of the top place in the world where ease of doing business is extinct. With marching ground ideology, aimless so called lazy youth leader that destroy your property for not compensating the boys.pls don't give me that Houston rubbish of having the hqtr of major oil coys.if your are sincere the government provide the necessary and tax rebate for oil coys.Nigeria is the only country where the community shout our oil as if all lands do not belong to the Fgn

nnokwa042:
while all the cows belong to Fulani's the cocoa afonjas shares the money alone but then when oil is mentioned u remember one Nigeria u people re wicked with devilish mind ,abuja was developed 100% with oil money but today only the northerners can be minister of abuja capital territory abi? Things will never be the same again in this Nigeria nobody be mumu again ,

bantudark:


i am a deltan too and i disagree making claims with criminals....

it was not the militants that made that 13% thing possible,,it was naija deltan leaders....

tutudesz:
Niger Delta house of reps members need serious beaten,what rubbish are doing in the house that they couldn't not lobby other rep members to support this bill.

aribisala0:
Your talk is IMPOTENT and EMPTY. They have been drilling before you were born and will continue long after you are dead . Go and relocaate them

rafindo:
I thank this dishonourable members for doing the right thing for once.sentiment apart business are sited where safety is guaranteed and ease of doing business is okay.as far I am concerned the Niger delta is one of the top place in the world where ease of doing business is extinct. With marching ground ideology, aimless so called lazy youth leader that destroy your property for not compensating the boys.pls don't give me that Houston rubbish of having the hqtr of major oil coys.if your are sincere the government provide the necessary and tax rebate for oil coys.Nigeria is the only country where the community shout our oil as if all lands do not belong to the Fgn

Amberon:
Focus on your barren region. And don't cry when the ND militants resume hostilities.

bantudark:



the west and north use the money from oil to develope their region and welcome you their anytime....what do you do with your money...??....nothing,nothing a tall....even if you get 100% resource control the delta would still be underdeveloped.....

you get 13% more than other states but yet the delta is less developed...you think you can fool us?....

wirinet:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

GavelSlam:


Is it only in Nigeria that oil is explored such that pollution is rampant?

Is it not the same global standard of exploration and production used?

Why is our own different?