The suspended Eze-Nwe Ula of Okporowo community of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chief Clifford Shika, has expressed worry over statements, concerning the sale and evacuation of the scrap line pipes allotted to the various communities along the Koko Creek Trunk Line by Shell Petroleum Development Company which led to his suspension.<\/p>\n

The new chairman of the community council, Dr. Ego Seji, had said that Shika and his vice, Chief Chinyere Esukpa, were suspended for declaring that the pipes, which were bidded\u00a0 between N150,000 and N170,000, were eventually sold for \u201ca paltry sum of N55,000 each\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Chief Shika explained that when the matter of the scrap line pipes began, the preliminary step the Council of Chiefs of Okporowo-Ekpeye took was to comply with the mandate given to them by the community to formally write to SPDC urging the company to grant them permission to dispose the waste discussed scrap line pipes piled up at Okporowo Ekpeye.<\/p>\n

He explained further that following a communiqu\u00e9 to the presidency by the affected communities, SPDC wrote to Okporowo-Ekpeye, authorising them to dispose off the pipes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTender\u2019s Board handled the issue of sales and upon the approval of a purchaser, the 190 pipes were sold at the rate of N55,000 each. A total sum of N10,450,000 was realised from the sale and this amount was made over to the community\u2019s treasury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shika expressed disappointment at the manner the matter was being handled, claiming that as at the time, he was sworn-in as the paramount Chief of Okporowo-Ekpeye, he met an empty treasury, \u201cbut by dint of hard work within a span of less than a year, the community coffer has over N16m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The suspended Eze-Nwe Ula of Okporowo community of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chief Clifford Shika, has expressed worry over statements, concerning the sale and evacuation of the scrap line pipes allotted to the various communities along the Koko Creek Trunk Line by Shell Petroleum Development Company which led to his suspension. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n