On Monday, the Minister for
Information and Culture with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe
Kachikwu, confirmed the Federal Government is considering opening a sound
conversation with the Niger-Delta militants on the need to stop the terror on
the oil source of the nation.
The dyad who spoke an interactive
session with an alliance of civil societies in Lagos, chaired by Dr. Moses Ilo,
founder of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, stressed that flagrant
activities of militants is currently hampering efforts being made by the
government to refurbish the nation’s economy.
Lai Mohammed while lamenting the
situation said there was no other solution to the issues happening in Niger
Delta other than engaging them in meaningful dialogue.
According to Kachikwu the
government has come to realize that rolling out military tanks against the
militants would not solve the problem.
“The military barrels cannot stop
or solve problem of militancy in the Niger–Delta region. I will have to go back
to my brothers, they are our brothers we will go and dialogue with them,”
He also said that the continued
audit of the country’s daily fuel consumption resulted in culling out 10
million litres of fake petroleum products that was daily subsidized by the
previous administration.
Kachikwu lamented that the fund
spent in subsidizing the pretentious consumption daily could have been used by
the Federal Government to fix the refineries, roads and other basic amenities
across the country which would have helped improve the Nigeria’s economy.
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