President Buhari Plans to Name oil Thieves

                           

President Buhari has given Nigerians assurance that his administration is working toward ending bad practices in the oil and gas sector and   "the perpetrators will be Named" he said.

Speaking on the Good morning Nigeria,  Nigeria Television Authority,NTA, Abuja Programme, the president said he is still looking for "Decent", "Patriotic" and "selfless" politicians and technocrats who will serve as Ministers.which he will name by September.


He said oil was still been illegally exported as at July 3rd,promising to exposed those behind these stealing and illegal operation in the sector,and update the Nigerian public.
Documents are being compiled and sent to countries that bought the stolen crude.with the sole aim of the government to identify and prosecute those responsible for the stealing.

“The search continues; up to the third of this month (July 3), our crude was still being illegally lifted by people who are in government. We are trying to get these documents. We are getting the cooperation of the international community.
“We are going to make sure that those who perpetrated this theft against Nigeria are faced with facts very soon and are taken to our courts.
“We’ve got the cooperation of some of the countries of the destinations of our crude (oil) and we are discussing with them.
“We have to maintain high confidentiality so that we don’t risk some of the loyal Nigerians that are helping us to trace the destinations of this stolen crude and then the accounts into which the monies are being paid instead of the Federal Governments account.”
He said he is studying the recommendation of reorganizing the NNPC,and also responding to the Composition of The Federal Executive Council, FEC. 

He said “From what I have seen so far, we need really patriotic Nigerians – Nigerians that can work very hard, knowledgeable, experienced, committed Nigerians – to be in charge of ministries.
“A lot of the institutions of Nigeria – important institutions – were compromised. Everybody was for himself and God for all of us; it’s most unfortunate.
“We have the people, educated people, experienced people but everybody seemed to be working for himself – how much he could get as much and as quickly as possible.
“We have to look for technocrats and we have to look for politicians and certainly we have to look for decent people in this class to give them the responsibility of being in charge of ministries and important parastatals (agencies).”