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Lawmaker accuses FG of selective development
A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has described the recent contract by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and financing for the 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano, AKK, gas pipeline and stations as a clear indication of the nonchalant approach which the Federal Government is adopting towards addressing issues concerning the oil bearing and producing areas of the Niger Delta region.
The lawmaker, who represents Warri federal constituency, Delta State, said: “For close to a decade, the Ogidigben (in Warri South-West LG, Delta State) Gas City project has been in the pipeline without any appreciable progress.”
He wondered why the Federal Government should display such unfathomable zeal in executing the AKK gas pipeline and station projects when all the gas that will be required will be piped from the Niger Delta region.
He faulted the “Present situation where gas from the region are piped to other regions to enhance their industrialization and with the aim of producing at low costs, while the gas- producing communities cannot benefit from the gas as the communities have been permanently neglected by the Federal Government in providing the requisite climate for industrialization”.
Vanguard, April 18, 2018
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