Unable to stop or cope with the attacks on oil facilities by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the Buhari’s government is now begging the Avengers and other militants groups to embrace dialogue. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu last night in Abuja announced that President Muhammadu Buahri appointed a committee to negotiate with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers.
He explained that the move to beg the militant was aimed at halting the deadly attacks which has lowered Nigeria’s oil production to 1.5 million barrels per day.
Kachikwu said the team that will dialogue with the militants will be coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser.
Other members of the team included himself, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru as well as selected leaders, kings and influential individuals from the Niger Delta.
He said, “The President has appointed a team led by the NSA and I serve in one of those, to begin the process of a very intensive dialogue with those caught in the middle of this. I am sure that in the ensuing one week the intensity of that dialogue will wrap up.
“The NSA is going to be working with the various arms of the armed forces to descale the intensity of military intervention in the area within a week or two so that dialogue can take place. We are making contacts with everybody who is involved, the ones that we can identify, through them, the ones that we can’t identify so that there is a lot more inclusiveness in this dialogue. Our prayer is that this works so that we resort to dialogue rather than use of force.”
On the reduction on oil production due to the atatcks by the Niger Delta Avengers, Kachikwu said, “Over the last two months, we have probably lost about 600,000 barrels from various attacks of militants in the area. In terms of production, we are roughly at about 1.5 million to 1.6 million barrels a day, down from 2.2mbd which is the basis of this year’s budget and if peace reigns, obviously between now and August we will be able to recover substantial portion of this production so that the budget doesn’t suffer.”
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It is better he swallows his military pride and do the needful so that these avengers might drop their purported vandalization for a better Nigerian economy. Shiekh Gumi earlier advised him to swallow his military vis-a-vis C in C ego just like yar’adua and Jonathan did or he kills the Nigerian economy, but PMP so much believes in OBJ, El’rufai etc,and as things are moving, these guys with amphibian technical know-how will cripple the oil sector of the economy for him. His Army can’t stannd as this has much to do with ecological factor that military professionalism.
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