Protesters have again blocked the entrance to a Chevron oil depot in Nigeria’s restive Niger Delta.
This will be the fourth time such protests have taken place.
The protesters, mostly unemployed youths, started the demonstration last Tuesday claiming their settlement had been destroyed due to a Chevron oil depot, or tank farm.
They are demanding jobs and new housing.
Chevron are yet comment on the recent protest.
The company confirmed last week the tank farm protest without saying whether oil production had been affected.
The Niger Delta region has been hit by a wave of militant attacks on oil and gas pipelines, reducing the country’s crude output by 700,000 barrels a day, according to NNPC.
A new militant group named the Niger Delta Avengers has claimed a series of attacks that have strangled Nigerian oil production at a time when the government desperately needs the money to revamp dilapidated infrastructure and fight Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast.
The militants say they want a greater share of Nigeria’s oil wealth – which accounts for around 70 percent of national income – to be passed on to communities in the impoverished region and for areas blighted by oil spills to be cleaned up. (TV360 Nigeria)
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