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The company therefore, assured customers across its franchise areas of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti states of its readiness to resolve all issues and problems associated with operations, soliciting for their patience and understanding.
“We buried 14 people including a six-month-old baby who died in the tanker explosion this morning,” said Muhammad Sani who took part in the rescue operation.
He said, “To us, this is an issue of concern and we want the house and indeed the National Assembly to look into it. Companies operating in states should be made to contribute and add value to their host states, while federal agencies should be encouraged to do more for the states.”
He therefore called for “a paradigm shift” in accordance with a new operating philosophy that would lay emphasis on in-country manufacturing, job creation, skills and technology development, capital retention, research and development as well as fostering sectoral linkages with other critical sectors of the nation’s economy.
He said the lawyers made more money than government from the case, even as he questioned the rationale behind involving private lawyers to handle the case, describing the arrangement as contrary to the global practice.
In the three months which ended September, total trade balance was in improvement of 661.5 billion Naira, over the second quarter.
He told the U.S ambassador that his administration was still determined to continue investigations and prosecution of corrupt persons in the country as “Nigeria will either kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria in the long run.”
