NNPC GMD Mele Kyari seeks special courtroom for oil theft cases

“It’s a difficult circumstance for the industry and that is why regardless of the nice intention and the provisions of the PIA — nobody will produce oil and recovers zero revenue and put the cash again into the enterprise. That is why investments are very weak regardless of the good physical surroundings that the PIA has brought.

“I’ve had the privilege to reply questions round funding climate in very many worldwide platforms. And they’re going to let you know: ‘If we deliver our cash how are you positive they won’t steal the oil’.

“It is very difficult to provide a straight reply. In fact, what we’re doing now will include it and can deliver stability back with all the effort of all of us.”

“I’m not sure we’re short of laws. It’s life imprisonment for the assault on these amenities so there are legal guidelines to help these. What we have to do is to extend the advocacy in order that the authorized process gets its course, and prosecutions are achieved well timed.

“I’d advocate that we arrange a particular courtroom for this in order that such circumstances could be rapidly dealt with.

“It isn’t simply the small individuals that you see at these locations which can be prosecuted. We all know that to promote crude oil on the worldwide market it’s not the business of the ordinary people that you see in these unlawful refinery settings.

“It’s an elitist business and we must have the braveness to arrange a very unbiased special courtroom to strive cases associated to those. Otherwise the influence today it has on our general economic outlook, our potential to improve foreign exchange and also when it comes to power safety for this nation is threatened by only a few folks. Clearly, they’re very few if you have a look at the dimensions of what is going on.”