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“For the avoidance of doubt and most crucially, it is entirely incorrect and thus false that we are indebted to NNPC in the amount that you have indicated or any other monies whatsoever. The correct position is that we do not owe NNPC the debt that you allege or any monies that can form the subject of the recovery action to which you allude,” the statement noted.

“So if the person filling the form puts a wrong name there, we will hold him liable and there will be criminal offences against him for lying and putting the wrong name of somebody who is not the beneficial owner. So it is to fish out those surrogates and to bring out the beneficial owners so that we know who they are, explain how they got their monies to get those licenses. So that is the essence of beneficial ownership.”

“The President believes the people of the Niger Delta deserve justice, and for me also it is a very important point,” he said. “The state of the region and the suffering of the people does not reflect the fact that it is the resource base of the country. In-spite of the past leadership failure, the Niger Delta people deserved a fair deal.”