Delta govt acquires 2,980 hectares of land for GRIP Project

According to Vanguard, Delta State Government, said 2,980 hectares of land had been acquired for the $20 billion Gas Revolution Industrial Park, GRIP Project,  in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state, out of the 4,000 hectares needed by the investors.

The state Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mr Mofe Pirah, disclosed this while addressing representatives of 15 cluster communities in Warri South-West and Warri North LGAs in continuation of the state government’s road map for actualisation of community engagement sessions with oil and gas producing communities in Delta South senatorial district of the state.

The communities include, Ode-Ugborodo, Ogidigben, Madangho, Ahudaibo, Jaghala and Ugbuegungun (Warri South West) and  Egbema, Opuama, Tsekelewu, Ogbudugbudu, Koko, Ogheye, Bateren, Jakpa, Tebu and Deghele (Warri North).

Pirah said: “The investors of the GRIP have announced that 4,000 hectares of land is needed for the project, but they have only acquired 2,980 hectares of which a good portion of it has been cleared preparatory for sand filling. Upon completion of the project, over five million workforce would have been provided. I therefore, on behalf of my governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, appeal that there is no need for rancour among the people over ownership of land or employment space as the immediate communities cannot provide all that is required for this project.”

The commissioner stated that the government and the people must provide the enabling environment for the project to come to fruition, warning against acts capable of derailing the early completion of the project.

“I was directed by the governor to meet with representatives of oil producing communities across the state on the need to help encourage and support the administration’s drive for the return of SPDC and other oil companies that left the state in the heat of hostilities.

“The state government has been dialoguing with the management of some of the multinationals and pushing for their returns to Delta. They have agreed to return on the condition of safe environment to operate,” he explained.

Source: Vanguard