Given the discrepancies associated with the NNPCL Right-of-Way Demolition Project, Chairman of Ayambo Community, Warisenibo Godswill Jumbo has called for a re-evaluation of structures along the path of the pipelines for justice and equity.
Warisenibo Jumbo spoke with Kristina Reports on Thursday, February 12, 2026 in his residence at Ayambo Community in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State.
He took exception to the misleading information given him by officials of the company when they visited to brief him on the project, saying findings by his team, which has interacted with residents in the affected areas, indicate discrepancies in the dimensions of the demolition scope.
“What they told me when they visited me is different from what my surveillance team is telling me they are now doing. You cannot agree on five meters, 10 meters, three meters, and come back later to say it is 25 meters, or any other thing.”
“Everyone who knows me knows that I do not pander to injustice, especially, when it affects my people, my community. So, I am calling on them to go back and do a new assessment and pay the people what they are supposed to be paid.”
Warisenibo Jumbo asserted that the community is aware of the presence of pipelines in the area and the right of way associated with them, but enjoined the affected residents to vacate the area for their own safety after the re-evaluation and settlement of claims is done.
“We are aware of the dangers of people living along the right of way and I am advising them to vacate the place for their own good, for their own safety. But the right thing has to be done.”
“We have always warned our community members to avoid that area but greedy and selfish land speculators went and were selling the land to unsuspecting members of the public, now the problem has come.”
“That place is called pipeline for a reason. It has pipelines and nobody is supposed to be living there or building structures on top of the pipelines. So, I am advising and pleading with those who have built on the pipelines to vacate. It is not safe.”
Protests broke out on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 when residents of the area objected to the sudden onset of demolition of their properties by Kristal Polis Limited, a contractor to WAGL Energy Limited, the contractor to NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (NEPL), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
Many of them told Kristina Reports that they were tricked to go and sign documents in Port Harcourt which was now being used to blackmail them to give up their properties, expressing surprise that the said monies which they were told then was to help them adjust their fences away from the right of way was now being tagged compensation for their properties.