Gombe State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Meshack Lauco, speaks with CHIMA AZUBUIKE on the controversy surrounding the discovery of oil in the North-East region
on the controversy surrounding the discovery of oil in the North-East regionrecently became prominent following the discovery of crude oil in the area. What’s the situation since the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , performed the inauguration?
Are you saying there won’t be any need to go to court any time soon as some have claimed that Gombe State owns four oil wells, while Bauchi State owns only Kolmani?If I should go by your words, since they have one, they still have. Those with the claims cannot say there’s no oil being produced in Bauchi State. So, Bauchi becomes an oil producing state just like Gombe State, because the 13 per cent derivation is not based on the number of wells that you have.
Already Bauchi and Gombe states, at the top government level of the chief executives of the states, have been interacting and I don’t see any problem that will come up between Bauchi and Gombe states. People outside the government may be misinformed, but I am telling you this from the position of the government that we do not envisage problems. When you see such problems happening sometimes, it is when the government didn’t pay attention.
The Gombe State Commissioner for Finance last year pleaded with his southern counterparts to be their brother’s keeper as it relates to the famous VAT discourse. How buoyant do you think the state will be, especially in playing the big brother role?
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