The Bayelsa
State Physical Planning Tribunal in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa have
summoned the directors of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and
Chevron Nigeria Limited to appear before it on Monday, June 30 2016,
over an alleged violation of court order.
The tribunal also threatened to seek bench warrant if the representatives of the two multinational oil companies fail to appear.
It was learnt on Wednesday, June 15,
2016 that their summon sequel to the failure of the companies to comply
with the eviction order as granted by a Bayelsa High Court in April,
2016.
The Bayelsa state government had in a petition before the court
accused SPDC of building Gbarain/Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas facility
without official permit otherwise known as development permit.
Delivering his ruling on the petition,
the court granted the state government leave to effect the eviction of
the SPDC and all occupants of the premises to enable the physical
planning board conduct environmental, health, technical integrity, and
safety checks on the facility.
Also, the court directed the
Commissioner of Police, the Commander of the Joint Task Force, (JTF) to
facilitate the enforcement of the eviction order.
However, the SPDC in defiance to this
order refused the government entry into the premises to carry out the
inspection as required by law.
The Gbarain/Ubie facility was developed
by SPDC on a two million square metres of land, (more than half of Lagos
Island) in Bayelsa state without a development permit contrary to the
provisions of the law and commissioned in 2010 despite subsisting stop
work order and notice to discontinue the development without the permit.
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