The President of the Movement for the Survival of Ijaw Ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), Prince Franklin E. A. Amachree wish to charge the National Assembly to live up to its legislative responsibility of passing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law without stress for the good of the oil and Gas sector which is the bloodline of our economic survival must not be politicized for parochial and regional sentiments.
If the PIB is enacted into law early this year 2015, it would inevitably attract direct foreign investors and investments that would stimulate the growth of the petroleum industry which has been characterized in the past with bureaucratic corruption and lack of accountability.
In other parts of the globe government owned companies and corporation are privatized but not sold out completely to foreigners in order to retain government control.
Federal law makers who do not see any thing good in the Petroleum Industry bill (PIB) should change their mind sets and align themselves with national realities than rhetoric. They should live above antics and foot dragging tactics in order to allow the easy passage of this all important bill into law to allow private participation in the Oil & Gas sector just like any developing or developed nation.
As an organization, we urge the national Assembly not to play politics with the PIB neither do we expect them to sacrifice the Petroleum Industry Bill on the platter of gold. Therefore the PIB should not be passed into law? No way.
Prince Franklin E. A. Amachree the president of MOSIEND is of the resolve that Mr. President should with draw any expired oil prospecting and mining licenses (OML & OPL) from individuals who are feeding fat from the proceeds but do not contribute in the transformation of their immediate environment not to be renewed rather be reissued to investors.
Without the passage of the PIB into law, it would be pretty difficult to see the establishment of private refineries, petrochemical plants and other fiduciary benefits would elude us developmentally. Therefore, our federal law makers should muster national courage and commitment to immediately pass this bill into law without much I do.
The quick passage of the bill by the National Assembly would give all solid and oil producing states in the country equal rights and benefits to use what they have to partner with foreign investors to provide what they want.
The best thing that has ever happened to this giant of Africa Nigeria is embedded in the PIB. President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (GCFR) signing the national health care bill into law is another milestone of his administration’s achievement to usher in modern facilities to reduce foreign medical trips and also attract our sister African Countries health problems into our Country for revenue generation.
The MOSIEND President, Prince Franklin E. A. Amachree is calling on the military to show their professionalism as to tackle the issue of Boko Haram in the Northern Nigeria. ###
