National leader of Unity House Foundation (UHF), a non-profit advocacy group, Wenenda Wali, has asked the federal government to sell the moribund oil
refineries and use the proceeds of the sale to construct the East-West Road in the Niger Delta region.
A statement by spokesperson for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Garba Deen Muhammad, further quoted the minister as saying, “Warri will come on stream by the end of the first quarter of next year, and Kaduna will also come on board towards the end of next year.” He lamented that refineries have remained inoperative and have become a conduit drain pipe for decades despite gulping billions of dollars for turnaround maintenance projects.
He said the federal government should ordinarily feel a sense of shame by the deaths arising from the state of the Eleme-Onne, Ahoada-Kaiama and Benin-Warri stretches of the East-West Road, that are incidentally the axis of Nigerian wealth.
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