Buhari Government Should Tell Nigerians Details of Contract Agreement With Dangote Refinery – PWYP

A non-governmental organisation, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) has dragged the President Buhari-led administration, saying there are many questions left unanswered by the government as Dangote Refinery is scheduled to be inaugurated today, Monday May 22, 2023.

Epiczone.ng gathered that Comrade Taiwo Otitolaye, the National Coordinator PWYP Nigeria noted that the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari had announced that Nigeria’s national oil company would begin to supply Dangote refinery 300,000 barrels of crude oil daily this week.

The 300,000 barrels is 46.2% of Dangote Refinery’s daily crude oil needs.

The Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Nigerian billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote.

The group, however, described it as “another phase and the beginning of the corporate capture of our Commonwealth by frontiers of the ruling class” while asking the Muhammadu Buhari government what will be the fate of country’s four refineries.

He said, “Mr. Kyari was quoted to have said that ‘we want to address the energy challenges so that industrialization can come to the country.’

“Has any monopoly arrangements ever enthroned industrialization in any climes?

“The Publish What You Pay (PWYP), Nigeria wonders why the nation’s four (4) refineries that several billions of dollars have been wasted on cannot work while the managers of our economy are happy to cheaply give away the people’s natural resources while host communities live in degraded, environmentally polluted and disease invested underserved communities: and the citizenry lives in abject poverty.

He also identified some of the unanswered questions: “What are the contents of the contract agreement with the Dangote refinery? For how long are we going to continue? Oil swaps that are wastages compared to self-oil refining?

“How would it address industrialization of the country? What happens to the nation’s four (4) refineries that we have wasted several billions of dollars in TAM, staff remunerations and other expenses?

“Would our refineries go the way of the Discos, Gencos and other government enterprises that were grossly undervalued and sold under the guise of privatization?

“For how long would this path of economic sabotage and looting of commonwealth last?”