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Sani urges Buhari to probe alleged $3b spent by northern leaders on search for oil

By Saxone Akhaine, Northern Bureau Chief
09 February 2016   |   5:55 am
CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debts, Shehu Sani, has said that the move by northern leaders to exploit oil in the region without success over the years was a cause of concern, saying that they had so far sunk $3 billion on elephant projects on exploration. Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone under…

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CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Foreign and Domestic Debts, Shehu Sani, has said that the move by northern leaders to exploit oil in the region without success over the years was a cause of concern, saying that they had so far sunk $3 billion on elephant projects on exploration.

Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone under the All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this yesterday when members of Kaduna State Students Union paid him a courtesy call in his Kaduna office.

According to him, so far, over $3 billion had been wasted on what he called white elephant project without any hope of getting the oil.

He, therefore, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a committee to investigate oil exploration in the North, adding that the President should not limit his probe to Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, but extend it to other leaders of past governments to explain the wealth they amassed which they cannot justify.

It would be recalled that the Northern Nigeria Development Company (NNDC) had said it would commence the exploration of oil and gas in the northeastern part of the country by the first quarter of this year.

Chairman of the company, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu said this while briefing journalists at NNDC’s 47th yearly general meeting late last year in Kaduna.

He stated that NNDC was currently collaborating with its technical partners and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the expertise and budgetary requirements for the flag-off of oil exploration project.

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