HOSTCOM leaders, Reps move to amend PIA, seek increase of oil community fund to 6%

May 27, 2026

By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja

Leaders of oil-producing host communities in the Niger Delta and members of the House of Representatives have resolved to push for an amendment to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 to increase the statutory allocation to host communities from three percent to six percent.

The resolution was reached at the end of a joint retreat involving the House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities (HOSTCOM), the House Committee on Public Petitions, and HOSTCOM Trustees from across the Niger Delta, held at the Protea Hotel in Owerri.

Chairman of the House Committee on HOSTCOM, Dekor Dumnamene Robinson, disclosed that the committee would sponsor the proposed amendment in the House of Representatives, arguing that the current three percent provision had become inadequate to address the development needs of oil-bearing communities.