{"id":18550,"date":"2018-05-05T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18550"},"modified":"2018-05-05T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T19:20:42","slug":"fupre-zero-budgetary-allocation-oboro-tasks-house-of-reps-as-urhobo-liberation-force-threatens-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18550","title":{"rendered":"FUPRE ZERO BUDGETARY ALLOCATION: OBORO TASKS HOUSE OF REPS. AS URHOBO LIBERATION FORCE THREATENS MAYHEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18350\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cc91c-0-0\">The member representing Okpe, Sapele, Uvwie Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Evelyn Oboro has demanded for adequate budgetary provision for the Federal University of Petroleum Resources(FUPRE), Effurun in the 2018 appropriation bill in compliance with the FUPRE Act just as\u00a0 Urhobo Liberation Force(ULF) threatens to cripple Oil and Gas facilities in Urhobo land over the issue<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"8m4nb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8m4nb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8m4nb-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"6sghk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6sghk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6sghk-0-0\">Hon. Oboro who is also a senatorial aspirant made this known under matters of personal explanation, said the house had on Wednesday 20th December, 2017 resolved for adequate budgetary provision in the 2018 appropriation bill for the smooth takeoff of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta state.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"dmrfk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dmrfk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dmrfk-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"5t0s8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5t0s8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5t0s8-0-0\">She warned that failure by the Federal Government and National Assembly to implement the provisions of the FUPRE Act will amount to a breach of the law.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"hirg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"hirg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"hirg-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"9n5p6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9n5p6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9n5p6-0-0\">The lawmaker pointed out that the need to explain to the house became necessary because of an online report in one of the national dailies, credited to a group of militants under the aegis of Urhobo Liberation Force, which threatened to unleashed mayhem on oil and gas facilities to ensure that they return the country to Zero in oil and gas production if the FUPRE Act is not implemented in the 2018 budget.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"4qqe0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4qqe0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4qqe0-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"1cba3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1cba3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1cba3-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"cma40-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cma40-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cma40-0-0\">According to her, &#8220;there had been also tension and protest by members of staffs and students of the University, and if the matter is not positively treated, it may lead to breakdown of law and order&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"497i7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"497i7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"497i7-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"ehbu0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ehbu0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ehbu0-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"ahsb8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ahsb8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ahsb8-0-0\">Oboro pleaded for the committee on appropriation to comply with the resolution of the house and ensure that the relevant provisions in the FUPRE Act are captured in the 2018 budget. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"388nn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"388nn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"388nn-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"aq1rf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"aq1rf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"aq1rf-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"3bn1v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3bn1v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3bn1v-0-0\">The Speaker, Rt Hon. Yakubu Dogara referred the matter to the Committee on Legislative Compliance to ensure that the budgetary provisions for FUPRE are implemented for its smooth takeoff.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"4ccr6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4ccr6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4ccr6-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"eeo6a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eeo6a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eeo6a-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"84eh7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"84eh7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"84eh7-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"aa1jt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"aa1jt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"aa1jt-0-0\">Meanwhile in a statement by General Orubu Ekpe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0G.O.C\u00a0 \u00a0 Operations\u00a0 and\u00a0 General Mike Agbalele\u00a0\u00a0 G.O.C\u00a0 \u00a0 Defence,\u00a0 the Urhobo Liberation Force(ULF) said:\u00a0 &#8220;We are giving 14 days ultimatum to the Federal Government to make adequate budgetary Provision for the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE) as stated in the Acts Establishing the university accented to by the President, His Excellency, President Muhamadu Buhari on the 17th October, 2107. If not, the Oil and Gas facilities in Urhobo land will be blown off.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"aa1jt-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"f8v9a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\">&#8220;The Urhobo nation is the 5th largest Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria, very rich with Oil and Gas facilities. The Urhobo Nation has been marginalized in the Administration of President Muhamadu Buhari. The Buhari Administration refused to give Urhobo Nation a Ministerial appointment and any viable position in the Oil and Gas related Agencies. And a budgetary provision for financial implementation of the Petroleum Varsity in Urhobo land was deliberately left out in the 2018 Appropriation bill (2018 Budget) sent by the President to the National Assembly, While N45 Billion was captured in the 2018 budget for North East Development Commission (NEDC). <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\">&#8220;It will interest you to note that North East Development Commission (NEDC) Act, was accented to a week after Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE) Act by the president.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a2gdn-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"964br-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"964br-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"964br-0-0\">&#8220;We appreciate His Excellency for signing the FUPRE bill to an Act and the smooth take off, of Academic activities of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko. We will appreciate FG more, if he make quick U-turn to direct the National Assembly Committees on Appropriation to adequately allocate from the excess crude funds realized in the increase of the Oil Benchmark as it rose from$45 per barrel to the current benchmark $72 per barrel \u2013 yielding an excess of about N152Billion (One Hundred and Fifty Two Billion Naira) derived from Urhobo Nation in the Niger Delta Region in the 2018 Appropriation bill, this should be done without sharing blood.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"964br-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\">&#8220;It has come to our notice, that the plot of the Federal Government for not making Budgetary provision for the smooth take-off of the University is as a result of the Northern agenda to relocate the University to Kaduna that is a parasitic State that have no single oil well and contribute nothing to the nations treasuring, we recall that, the National institute of Petroleum Policy and strategic(NIPPS) and the National College of Petroleum, Kaduna was established to kill FUPRE which plot has failed in several attempt made. <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\">&#8220;These are Institutions that are trying to kick-off without students at the moment was given the sum of N15billion and N10.4bilion respectively by PTDF yet FUPRE that has graduated students and being up running for 11years now has no single funding from PTDF . <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\">This is to show the level of Federal Government bias towards the Niger Delta.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a97cp-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"9oc0v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9oc0v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9oc0v-0-0\">&#8220;We the Urhobo Liberation Force, will be ready to return the country to zero Oil and Gas production and force the country into another recession if adequate provision is not made within this period of the 14 days of our ultimatum. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16129&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e7hke\" data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\">We call on all militant group with genuine intent towards the development of the Niger Delta Region to join forces with us to correct this wicked and devilish agenda of this administration aimed at under developing the oil rich Niger Delta. <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\">&#8220;We also call on the leadership of the Pan Niger Delta Forum PANDEF to wade into this issue as a voice of the Niger Delta People with all our mandate. If we strike, we will not listen to their call for peace. This should not be taken as a threat but all necessary machinery to carry out this operations has been put in place. All oil and Gas facilities in the upland will been blown off, we advise all oil and Gas companies operating the upland to take note because this operation shall be bloody.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18551\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro.jpg 960w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/oboro-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8f7kn-0-0\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The member representing Okpe, Sapele, Uvwie Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. 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