Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has donated three 12-seater speed boats on Friday to Fantua community in Nigeria's southeastern Bayelsa State in oil-rich Niger River Delta as part of its efforts to establish good relationship with local communities.
Suoton Amade, the company's Area B community interface coordinator, said during the handover ceremony in Port Harcourt at weekend that the donation was to enable the community to start a commercial water transport scheme.
Amade said that the scheme, if properly handled, would employ 19 members of the Fantua community and positively affect their lives.
He explained that SPDC had already held business literacy and technical skills training for those who would handle the scheme.
The company had incurred quarrels and conflicts with local communities due to accidental oil spillage and related pollution as well as corresponding refunding affairs.
In a bid to harmonize its dealing with local people and amend relationship, Shell has beefed up its aids to local communities with small projects in the Delta region, Nigeria's oil hub.
Source: Xinhua
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