National Chairman of the Association of Online Media Practitioners in Nigeria, (AMPCON), Mogaji Wole Arisekola has decried the activities of economic saboteurs hindering the progress of reforms being made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the nation’s oil and gas industry.
The business mogul and media personality on Thursday, February 1, 2024 held a policy dialogue in Victoria Island, Lagos to appraise the performance of the All Progressives Congress under President Tinubu.
“Wherever you see meaningful reforms taking place in the world even in the West, there will surely be resistance, clogging the wheel of progress. Such people should be completely ignored and even exposed by the government.
“Gone are the days when Trade Unions, like PENGASSAN or NUPENG, civil societies take to the streets, calling for strikes and other industrial actions or whereby lawyers come up with frivolous litigations as vehicles and tools to distort progress. We are also aware that many have been paid to do hatchet jobs and to stir up the hornets nest, by raising false accusations against ministries, departments, parastatals, government agencies and political appointees in the oil and gas sector.”
“Their malicious intents will not stand. No economic saboteur will survive under Tinubu’s regime, We must all be committed to giving life to the renewed hope agenda of President Tinubu so that we can grow and develop at the speed of light socio-economically.”
Arisekola also applauded the President’s efforts in the petroleum sector, adding that the improvements in the country’s main source of revenue generation is now expanding the frontiers of good governance, blocking leakages and deepening democratic practice in Nigeria.
“Together with the board and management of NNPC and other relevant subsidiaries of the ministry, they have been able to proactively eliminate the perennial fuel queues across the country, to a large extent stabilize the price of petroleum products, scale-up our oil export output from an abysmal low level to above the projected targets per day, brought peace and stabilize the often volatile Niger Delta.”
He also disclosed that the present administration is tackling issues of crude theft, lack of oil investments, while further developing the country’s oil assets to increase revenues from the petroleum sector.
“Most recently, President Tinubu also made a seismic shift with the aim of engendering transparency and accountability. Under this new arrangement, NNPC will submit receipts for crude oil sales to CBN for vetting and documentation with immediate effect. This is a total departure from how things used to be done to how things ought to be done.
“I must also emphasize that policies passed by this administration are geared towards making the country utilise its gas potential for power generation and distribution, clean cooking, auto-use, and industrialization.” Arisekola added.