A Civil Society Organisation, Policy Alert, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s signing of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, urging communities to test the provisions of the Act before the courts. President Buhari had on Monday signed the erstwhile Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, into law amidst protests from community groups and many other stakeholders that the Bill was not adequately cover the rights and interests of the host communities. In a statement signed by its Communications and Stakeholders Engagement Officer, Mrs. Nneka Luke-Ndumere, Policy Alert, which is working for economic and ecological justice, described the presidential assent to the PIB as “grossly insensitive and problematic.”
Source: https://sweetcrudereports.com/cso-urges-oil-communities-to-go-to-court-over-pia/