Tension in Bonny Island as Community Accuses TotalEnergies, Renaissance, Amni International of Plans to Breach the Peace

Total Energies in Nigeria, Amni International Petroleum Development Company Limited (Amni) and Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited (RAEC) have been accused of planning to cause a breakdown of law and order in Bonny, Rivers State over issues related to their construction project along the Bonny 48” Offshore Loading Line.

The Jumbo Akatikpo Park Community of Jumbo Chieftaincy House of Bonny Kingdom on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in a statement made exclusively available to Kristina Reports in Bonny, Rivers State, accused the three companies of neglecting the land owners of the area where the project is currently ongoing.

Kristina Reports learnt that TotalEnergies is constructing a pipeline along the route of the Bonny 48” Offshore Loading Line, which upon completion will convey gas from an offshore facility belonging to Amni International to the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal (BOGT) operated by Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited in Bonny, Rivers State.

Spokesman of the community, Dr Fidelis Jumbo said the stretch of land where the Bonny 48” Offshore Loading Line traverses into the BOGT is jointly owned by the Jumbo and Brown Chieftaincy Houses of Bonny Kingdom while Bonny Kingdom is a consentor to the deal.

A document bearing details of the 1972 deal, which was sighted by Kristina Reports shows that Chief Dandison John-Jumbo and three others signed for Jumbo House, Chief Idamieibi Brown and three others signed for Brown House, while Chief Benoni Ezekiel-Hart and Chief Josiah Finecountry signed on behalf of Bonny Kingdom as consentor.

Checks by Kristina Reports shows that all six signatories of the agreement on the stretch of land have passed on to the great beyond.

Dr Jumbo accused the Brown House of putting forward itself as sole landlord of the said land, describing such conduct as bereft of altruism and sincerity, calling on TotalEnergies, Amni International and Renaissance to retrace their steps to forestall avoidable crisis in the area.

“The line coming all the way from the Atlantic, belongs to the Jumbo House, the Brown House, and Bonny Kingdom, on a 30-30-40 basis.”

On his part, the Chairman of Jumbo Akatikpo Park Community, George Sunju-Jumbo said the recipe for peace in Bonny Kingdom is for all stakeholders to respect the rule of law and follow due process, urging TotalEnergies, Amni International and Renaissance to engage the joint landlords of the land where their project is situated.

“We want peace in this Kingdom. So, whatever our forebears have done, we should hold on to it firmly and not with any interest that will bring chaos in Bonny Kingdom.”

“The Kingdom should be interested in what TotalEnergies, Amni International and Renaissance is doing in Bonny now, because it concerns two families, the Brown House and the Jumbo House.”

“Also, in that document, the Kingdom comprising the Jumbo and the Brown signed as consentor. So, why should the Brown House today present themselves as the only people, the only family that TotalEnergies should talk to? We can’t take it. We cannot allow it.”

Brown House was yet to respond to enquiries by Kristina Reports on its reaction to this allegation as messages sent to the Chief and Head of the Brown House, Aseme Alabo Dagogo Lambert was yet to be responded to.

TotalEnergies and Amni International were also yet to respond to enquiries by Kristina Reports.

A visit by Kristina Reports team to the project shows that work was ongoing despite the protest by the co-landlords to the land, a situation close watchers of the development describe as corporate insensitivity on the part of TotalEnergies and Amni International.

Kristina Reports also reliably learnt that the companies did not invite Jumbo House or Jumbo Akatikpo Park Community to a meeting it convened on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 to review the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the project at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

A former top management staff of one of the oil and gas companies, who preferred anonymity, described the posture of the two companies as appalling, stating that “”in this age where everything is being done to des-escalate tension in the energy sector, such corporate misdemeanour is being witnessed?

“How do you explain the disrespect, disregard and disenfranchisement of land owners of a place where you are doing a project? You don’t invite them for EIA, you don’t consult them on their own property? Actually, Bonny Kingdom as a whole is taking a whole lot of nonsense.”