{"id":448836,"date":"2011-06-27T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/27\/community-disrupts-chevron%e2%80%99s-operations\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:16:13","slug":"community-disrupts-chevrons-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/27\/community-disrupts-chevrons-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Community disrupts Chevron\u2019s operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79\">\n<p>BY Emma Arubi<br \/>WARRI\u2014 HUNDREDS of protesters from Aja-Omaetan oil-rich community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday,\u00a0 shut the gates of\u00a0 Chevron Nigeria Limited, on Warri\/NPA expressway and disrupted its operations for several hours before their leaders were invited into the premises of the company for dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, who arrived the company at about 6 a.m., grounded all activities at the company, as they prevented all staff from entry while dozens of mobile policemen and soldiers from the Effurun Barracks were on hand to prevent a break down of law and order.<\/p>\n<p>The placard carrying peaceful protesters, who claimed that Chevron had over the years refused to accord them their rightful dues, said\u00a0 that they had been pushed to the wall and left with no other option than to take the battle to Chevron\u2019s gates.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman and Secretary of Aja-Omaetan community, Mr. Anthony Jemide and Austin Ayonronfo, told Vanguard, during the protest that their major worry included the frequent employment of youths from other communities by Chevron to Aja-Omaetan\u00a0 to clear the company\u2019s Right-of-Way, while people of the community were left out.<\/p>\n<p>They added that Chevron took their peaceful disposition for granted when it continued to deny the community its dues and privileges in the security surveillance job in their Dibi field while same was given out as public relation to some highly placed persons\u00a0 in the society to the detriment of Aja-Omaetan people, who ought to have been given some of the the jobs as of right.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, Chevron had deliberately left them out in the soon to commence \u201cLong Term Project,\u201d which include the building of some legacy facilities, including staff quarters and laying of pipelines in the Dibi field operations. They also alleged that the company had denied the community their fair share of scholarship wards.<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard gathered from government sources that its had accordingly advised Chevron to grant the community request as they were legitimate but the company had not deem it fit to obey the Delta State government position on the lingering crisis between parties, resulting into the protest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/community-disrupts-chevrons-operations\/\" title=\"Community disrupts Chevron\u2019s operations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community disrupts Chevron\u2019s operations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY Emma Arubi WARRI\u2014 HUNDREDS of protesters from Aja-Omaetan oil-rich community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday,\u00a0 shut the gates of\u00a0 Chevron Nigeria Limited, on Warri\/NPA expressway and disrupted its operations for several hours before their leaders were invited into the premises of the company for dialogue. The protesters, who arrived the company at about 6 a.m., grounded all activities at the company, as they prevented all staff from entry while dozens of mobile policemen and soldiers from the Effurun Barracks were on hand to prevent a break down of law and order. The placard carrying peaceful protesters, who claimed that Chevron had over the years refused to accord them their rightful dues, said\u00a0 that they had been pushed to the wall and left with no other option than to take the battle to Chevron\u2019s gates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Community disrupts Chevron\u2019s operations - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/27\/community-disrupts-chevrons-operations\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Community disrupts Chevron\u2019s operations - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BY Emma Arubi WARRI\u2014 HUNDREDS of protesters from Aja-Omaetan oil-rich community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday,\u00a0 shut the gates of\u00a0 Chevron Nigeria Limited, on Warri\/NPA expressway and disrupted its operations for several hours before their leaders were invited into the premises of the company for dialogue. 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