President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, directed
the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, to work
more closely with the indigenous oil producers in the country to resolve the
problems facing them.
He assured indigenous companies operating in Nigeria’s
oil and gas sector of the full support and protection of his administration.
According to a statement by his Senior Special
Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke at a meeting
with members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Association in the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari commended their determination to increase the
participation of Nigerians in the country’s oil industry and promised to do all
within his powers to address the challenges which they currently face.
He
assured the Nigerian oil producers that the present administration would take
appropriate actions to maintain and enhance security in their areas of
operation, noting that better security would help to lower production costs,
which, he said, had become unnecessarily high in the country.
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