Buhari Will Allocate Oil Blocks To South South Indigenes - Petroleum Minister

                                

The minister of Petroleum for state Dr Ibe kachikwu said that the president has not yet allocated any single oil block since he came to office,that he will award indigenes of the South South  oil block when he starts, which is one of the demands of the Niger Delta Avengers militants.

Kachikwu who was responding to question at a town hall meeting organised by the ministry of information and culture in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state ,said the awards of oil blocks was not  the doing of president Buhari.but he will follow due process when he starts.the people questioned why most oil blocks were given to the northerner rather than the southerners were majority of the oil blocks are situated.
The minister also disagree with the Rotimi Amaechi over the cancellation of the Maritime University.
he said:

“I disagree with the minister of transport. Any facility in the South-south, we should work towards developing it, I don’t care the circumstance. It is not my business whether land was valued at 19 or 10 million,” he said responding to Amaechi’s claim that land for the university was valued at N13 billion.

“That has nothing to do with development of infrastructure. As far as I know, so much has already gone into that, so much fiscal asset has been developed. We are not going to throw away the baby and the bath water.

“We’ll deal with the issues but the university will be developed. If he (Amaechi) doesn’t want it in maritime, I will take it in Petroleum.

“On the issue of negotiations, again I disagree with him. There’s no theatre in the world where conflicts are being resolved through battle. It doesn’t matter who’s right, who’s wrong.”