By Festus Ahon

UGHELLI-people of Owevwe-Agbarha Otor community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, have decried the failure of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to embark on any project in the area, despite its status as the headquarters of the Eriemu Field, the second in oil production quota in the council.

They lamented that after four years of its establishment, the commission had no indigene of the various communities, which make up the oil field and which they said was host to 22 oil wells, the biggest pigging manifold in West Africa, a flow station and a gas station.

Speaking during a town hall meeting organised by the commission, President-General of Owevwe community, Mr. Freeborn Adjanakpo, said the people were amazed that, “the zonal office of the commission, which ought to be cited in the Eriemu Field, was taken to Orogun.”

Reiterating that host communities were “the brain behind the establish-ment of DESOPADEC,” Adjanakpo urged the commission to ensure that job opportunities were distributed to the field and shared per production quota.