The Senate on Thursday moved in to resolve the crisis brewing among three states over ownership of some oil wells.
The feuding states are Kogi, Anambra and Enugu.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, directed the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) to investigate the matter and submit its report in two weeks time.
The decision followed a Point-of-Order raised to that effect by Senator Chukwuka Utazi (Enugu-PDP) at plenary on Thursday.
The senator sought the intervention of the Senate to prevent major crises among the states laying claim to the ownership of the oil wells.
He explained that an appointee of the Anambra State Government, Prince Emu, had in an interview claimed that Anambra was an oil-producing state.
According to him, the status had however been withdrawn having realized that the government, under former President Goodluck Jonathan erred by giving an oil-producing status to Anambra.
The withdrawal, he said, meant that Anambra’s status had therefore not been confirmed.
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Said he: “This is already brewing violence among communities laying claim to the oil wells.
“We know what we did in the past to restore peace among those warring communities and election period is around the corner and we do not want any crisis.’’
Senator Andy Uba (Anambra-APC) however debunked Utazi’s claim about the status of Anambra.
According to him, Anambra State remained an oil-producing state because it had met the requirement that stipulates that any state that produces 120,000 barrels of oil per day is qualified as an oil-producing state.
“That is why Anambra was conferred with that status,’’ Uba argued.
