NNPC: The place Are Our Refineries after 8 years?

The funds we now have been spending on subsidies may purchase us model new refineries off the shelf.

The NNPC awarded homongous contracts for the rehabilitation or refurbishment of our 4 nationwide refineries, and by the phrases of the contract, all of the refineries ought to have been delivered by now

Nonetheless, impulsively, the NNPC, which sunk our cash within the refineries contract, has determined to maintain mute

They don’t seem to be telling us the standing of the contract and the current situation of refineries, the subject material of the contract

In the meantime, the cost of subsidy continues unhindered and unabated

.the entrepreneurs, importers, and the enablers within the system are smiling to the financial institution with each subsidy cost

The merchandise for which the subsidies are paid have continued to be scarce, and the costs hovering increased

But, the NNPC maintains the complete complement of employees of the refineries who’ve been completely doing nothing however gathering fats salaries and allowances, getting promoted and retired on everlasting pensions for many years of full and complete inactivity in all of the refineries

It’s ludicrous, to say the least, that not one of the refineries we now have sunk trillions of {Dollars} in, has refined a single barrel of crude oil for many years

Why ought to we be speaking about subsidy at this stage, when what we anticipate is the free move of refined petroleum merchandise from our refineries?

What has occurred to the contracts for the flip round of the 4 nationwide refineries, about two years after it’s award?

I feel that the NNPC ought to account for the efficiency of this contract to Nigerians, as a substitute of romancing with the difficulty of elimination or not of the present subsidy regime

We should always by now be exporting petroleum merchandise to the world, as a substitute of affected by the shortage and exorbitant costs of the merchandise within the home market

One thing should be fallacious someplace and all of us culpable for, if not responsible of the conspiracy of silence in opposition to ourselves

We should always ask the NNPC: the place are our refineries?

Yusuf Shehu Usman, mni

Abuja

20/02/023