FG, stakeholders move to check oil theft

Posted by admin Latest Politics Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

In order to stop crude oil theft in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday night met relevant stakeholders in the oil sector to map out strategies to check the menace.

Speaking with State House correspondents shortly after the meeting, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison Madueke, said the president summoned relevant stakeholders in the oil industry to discuss the critical issue of crude oil theft.

To get lasting solutions to the menace, which she claimed has been adversely affecting revenue accruing to the Federation Account, she said that the new move will involve in-depth and aggressive brainstorming for the next 10 days.

She said, “We are continuing with what has been done but we are becoming much more aggressive. We met with a number of the multinationals, we have come up with various pointers which must be addressed in an in-depth manner over the next 10 days.

“A technical team is going to meet across all the stakeholders, they will break into various committees, like I said it is a many prong issue and must be addressed by a multi-prong pushback. So over the next 10 days we will form the relative committees, they will meet and then we will move to implement very aggressively.”

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