The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu
has said the Federal Government is considering opening a robust
dialogue with the Niger-Delta militants on the need to stop militancy in
the oil rich region.
He made the statement in an interactive
session with a coalition of civil societies in Lagos. Also present was
the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
“The military tanks cannot stop or solve
problem of militancy in the Niger Delta region. I will have to go back
to my brothers; they are our brothers. We will go and dialogue with
them,” Kachikwu said.
Kachikwu also pointed out that the fuel subsidy regime is not sustainable, hence its removal.
On why queues disappeared immediately the price of petrol was hiked, Kachikwu said:
“Queues disappeared because everybody
who had incentive to hoard were no longer hoarding and those who were in
the business other than hoarding petroleum business for hoarding sake
left the business because there was no need to hoard. Again we were
having pretentious number of consumption for subsidy payment.”
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