The APC Legacy and Campaign Awareness, a voluntary think-tank group of the governing party, has said President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration has boosted the Niger region with massive Investment in oil and gas Infrastructure.
The group said that the Train 7 of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) project in Bonny, Rivers State will attract over $10 billion dollars of domestic and foreign investment, while creating several thousand jobs.
It also reiterated commitment of the President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration to the a prosperous and crisis-free Niger Delta, noting that the 3% Host Community Fund guaranteed in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) will pump over $500 million dollars Investments into the oil rich region
The group,in a statement signed by four chieftains of the party, including Salisu Mohd Lukman, Director General of PGF said also noted that the Ogoni clean up and remediation work that “the procurement process for the clean-up commenced in 2018, while the actual remediation commenced in January 2019, with the handing over of the first batch of 21 sites to the selected contractors, for remediation.
“The project will also make interventions in healthcare facilities and systems in the region. The Clean-Up has so far created hundreds of jobs for locals.Until 2016, there was only one functioning modular refinery in the Niger Delta, with a capacity to refine 1,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
“Today, spurred by the Buhari Administration’s New Vision for the Niger Delta, there are several Modular Refinery construction projects ongoing across the Niger Delta, all led by the private sector.
“The original 1,000 bpd Refinery in Rivers State, which began operations in 2011, has under President Buhari’s watch expanded into an 11,000 bpd facility. In November 2020 President Buhari commissioned the first phase of the Waltersmith Refinery in Imo State.
“The OPAC Refinery in Delta State has also been completed. The ones in Edo and Bayelsa States are under construction, while Waltersmith has flagged off construction of its second phase” the group said.
The group also listed the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) it said, is currently pioneering Oil and Gas Park in Bayelsa State, which is scheduled for completion at the end of 2022 and will on completion be serviced by a 10MW power plant.
“The Presidential Amnesty Programme, inherited from previous administrations, has continued to deliver on its mandate, with the full support of the President. The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is being reformed and repositioned, in line with the President’s vision of ensuring that the people of the Niger Delta benefit maximally from the wealth of their land.
“The administration has recently completed and commissioned the Commission’s Headquarters, 25 years after construction began, and after several spells of abandonment by previous governments.
“A comprehensive forensic audit of the NDDC has just been completed; the first of such audit since the Commission was established. The President is determined to ensure a clean break from the mismanagement and corruption of the past.In terms of physical infrastructure, the 338km East-West Road, running across four States of the region — Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom — is now receiving priority attention, more than a decade after the contract was first awarded. The President is committed to completing the first four sections of the Road by 2022”.
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