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People power - Itsekiris take over Warri Refining & Petro-chemical Company
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass, 1857
it’s cliché now, but remember now power concedes nothing…
AllAfrica: Scores of aggrieved Itsekiris from three oil-producing communities in Warri South Local Council area of Delta State yesterday chased out workers of the Warri Refining and Petro-chemical Company (WRPC) in their area, insisting that the management must pay them N1.7 billion approved for clean-up contract.