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From Isaac Job, Uyo
The Committee For The Defence Of Human Rights (CDHR) have informed all the security agencies in Akwa Ibom of planned public demonstration by former personnel of ExxonMobil in Eket over unpaid entitlements by their employer for more than 10 years .
Security agencies notified of the protest include Nigeria Police, Directorate of State Security, the Nigerian army and other security formations in the state .
In a letter titled ” Notice of Peaceful Demonstration In Eket/ Ibeno local government areas by ex ExxonMobil Janitorial Service Staff and Ex Unified Catering Workforce for non payment of Their Entitlement Since 2012/2017″ and made available to Journalists in Uyo on Friday stated that the protest will last for two days .
The letter disclosed that the public demonstration will hold between 14th and 15th of October 2024 in Eket community consecutively.
The letter reads in parts :
” Our Organization has been briefed by the said class of staff of the ExxonMobil Nigeria Unltd operational base at Qua Iboe Terminal, Eket/Ibeno two days warning peaceful protest and with their consent and instruction we write about non payment of their entitlement (payoff) by ExxonMobil since tbey were dropped off from work unjustly by the company between 2012 and 2017.
” We are rightly informed that the company , ExxonMobil Nigeria had earlier reached an agreement to pay their ex workers entitlement but refused to carry out the payment till date .
The human right group explained that the sacked workers have informed the public of the planned protest to press home their demands from the oil company .
It stated that the protest was billed to hold on September through the approval of Akwa Ibom state commissioner of Police in AKwa Ibom state who later intervened with the hope that the oil company will do the needful to avoid public demonstration by the ex workers.
It is worthy to note that this protest was initially scheduled to take effect on 27th September via a letter by Akwa Ibom Commissioner of Police when it discovered that the oil company had defaulted in their agreement to pay the workers”.
