Part of the highlights of the Akwa Ibom town hall
meeting by the federal ministers were the
different stands taken by Amaechi and Kachikwu
on different issues confronting the nation.
meeting by the federal ministers were the
different stands taken by Amaechi and Kachikwu
on different issues confronting the nation.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Ibe
Kachikwu, has said President Muhammadu Buhari
has not allocated a single oil block since he came
into office, ThisDay reports.
Kachikwu said when the president eventually starts,
South-south indigenes would have their share.
At a town hall meeting in Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom
State capital, organised by the Federal Ministry of
Information and Culture, a Nigerian asked the
minister why oil block allocations favoured the
North rather than the South-south, where most oil
blocks are located.
Answering, Kachikwu, said this was not the doing
of President Buhari, emphasising that the president
would follow due process in allocation of oil
blocks when the time comes.
Kachikwu also disagreed with the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on the
establishment and maintenance of the Maritime
University in Akwa-Ibom.
“I disagree with the minister of transport. Any
facility in the South-south, we should work towards
developing it, I don’t care the circumstance. It is
not my business whether land was valued at 19 or
10 million,” he said responding to Amaechi’s claim
that land for the university was valued at N13
billion.
“That has nothing to do with development of
infrastructure. As far as I know, so much has
already gone into that, so much fiscal asset has
Source:
This Day
