BREAKING: Rivers wins oil wells from Bayelsa as court orders map error correction

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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the transfer of Soku oil field from Bayelsa State to its rightful owner, Rivers State.

Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by Rivers State, Justice Inyang Ekwo, ordered the National Boundary Commission to rectify the error in its 11th edition of Administrative Map, which designated San Bartholomew River as the boundary between the two states, instead of River Santa Barbara.

The NBC was said to have in its letter dated July 3, 2002 in response to Rivers State Government’s protest admitted its mistake and promised to rectify it in the 12th edition of the administrative map. The Supreme Court in 2012 ruled in favour of Rivers State and ordered the rectification of the error.

Granting the plaintiff’s prayers in his judgment delivered on Monday, Justice Ekwo ordered the commission to immediately produce the 12th edition of the Administrative Map restoring River Santa Barbara as the inter-state boundary between Rivers and Bayelsa States, as it was in 1996 when Bayelsa State was carved from Rivers State.

 

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Just imagine say Rivers na APC state.... hehehehe we for no hear word now

This one of the reason Rotimi Amaechi incurred the wrath of GEJ, for daring to go to court to claim what belongs to River State.

We await the owners of the oil wells from the north to lay claims officially. No time!

Oil Wells... More Bloods... How I wish the oils is fucking dried up so that we can all have peace in Nigeria.

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