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At a round-table of CSOs and stakeholders convened in Abuja by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) on the ongoing efforts of President Buhari’s administration to reform the Nigeria oil and gas sector, with special focus on the Berne Declaration.
Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria and other stakeholders have advocated a public hearing on the removal of petroleum subsidy to enable President Muhammadu Buhari take a final decision.
In a communiqué signed by the executive director, ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor, Zero Corruption Coalition’s Lukman Adefolahan and six others, the CSOs said, “Government should sustain the on-going reform of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and make it comprehensive.
Olanrewaju Adeoye of the 21st Century Community Empowerment for Youth and Women Initiative, Victor Emejuiwe, Centre for Social Justice, Debo Adeniran of Coalition against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, Comrade Nelson Nwafor, Foundation For Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development, (FENRAD), Odion Timothy ( Nigeria Network of NGOs and Olukayode Majekodunmi of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, attended the seminar.
They urged the Federal Government to strengthen all the anti-corruption agencies and fund them adequately to enable the recovery of all oil revenue looted by Politically Exposed Persons and prosecute them as promised Nigerians and also step up the crude oil refining capacities of the nation’s refineries to 100 per cent optimal capacity utilization.
The CSOs advocated immediate review of all Joint Venture Contracts of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation by the NNPC management just as they asked President Buhari to sign the 2015 Audit Bill passed by the seventh National Assembly into law.
