Reps Threaten To Issue Warrant Of Arrest On Dubri Oil, GereenVille LNG, Chevron For Ignoring Summon

The tripartite Committees investigating the implementation of corporate social responsibility by multinational oil companies in the South-South have threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the CEOs of the companies for failure to honour summons.

The chairman of the committees Hon. Lilian Orogbu frowned at the failure of some major oil companies to attend the investigative hearing held at the National Assembly complex

Professor Orogbu warned that she and her co-chairmen as well as the entire members of the committees would not hesitate to deal with any organisation that failed to respect the assignment investigative panel.

“The House has asked us to carry out this exercise based on the quantum of petitions from host communities against most of you and we will not take kindly to any organisations that decide to undermine this assignment,” Professor Orogbu stressed.

Professor Orogbu who had in her opening remarks emphasised that the essence of the investigation is to see that corporate bodies operating in Nigeria keep to the best practices of corporate and environmental behaviours within their host communities acknowledged that “Reports at the disposal of the parliament showed that a lot of you are lagging behind in this regard.

“We want to see a change and also ensure that what you do as a corporate social responsibility to your hosts are commensurate with the level of businesses you do.

“Some of you observe corporate social responsibility in other countries you operate but you fail to do the same here because nobody cares.

“We want a new Nigeria and we need you to work together with the government to rebuild this country. I know that some of you are doing quite well but there are many of you that are not responsible enough,” she stressed.

Members were also not happy that the companies that attended the hearing didn’t come with the evidence of what they had done for their host communities and for that reason, the meeting was rescheduled for another date which will be communicated to them by the secretariat.

The committees involved in the investigative hearing are the Corporate Social Responsibility, Niger Delta Development Commission and that of Host Communities.

The companies that attended include Oil companies that attended include: Dubri Oil company, Lee Engineering, Equinor Oil, Famfa Oil, ⁠Sahara Group, Network E&P Ltd, Monipulo Ltd, Greenville LNG, ⁠Chirus Energy, Seplat Energy, Roviigs Ltd, Chevron