‘Construction firm never had problem with Ugborodo’

A community leader and former Chairman of Ugborodo Community Trust,  Mr. Sandys Omadeli-Uvwoh, has responded to the attack on JAD Construction Company by some indigenes of Ugborodo, saying the company never had any problems with the community.

Responding to a protest letter to the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Omadeli-Uvwoh stated that the purported writers of the advertorial, whom he described as faceless, cashed in on an earlier petition he wrote to the Group MD regarding Chevron’s lopsided app-roach to community relations, to deliberately smear the name of JAD Construction Company.

Omadeli-Uvwoh said the company was never identified in the petition he signed with Mr. Tsebi, another prominent leader in Ugborodo.

He said: “The protesters may be agents of a catering company whose contract expired since 2007 but still operate through the use of blackmail.

“They have not made any impact on the development of our host communities and have not empowered our people by means of employment and contracts.”