NewsHalt Turn Around Maintenance On Refineries – Reps Tell Kachikwu, Baru

Halt Turn Around Maintenance On Refineries – Reps Tell Kachikwu, Baru

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SAN FRANCISCO, February 23, (THEWILL) – The House of Representatives has asked the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, to halt the Federal Government’s bid to spend $1.8bn on another Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) on the country’s four refineries.

THEWILL recalls that a November 2017 resolution of the House had directed the NNPC to stop the fresh TAM, pending the outcome of an investigation by the House into the many maintenance efforts carried out on the facilities in the past.

The House had noted that the same refineries had already gulped more than $20bn on TAM but without appreciable improvement in performance to justify the expenditure insisting that Nigeria’s refineries had the worst performance record in Africa of 11 per cent, compared to the 81 per cent scored by Egypt and 85 per cent recorded by South Africa.

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Speaking in Abuja, on Thursday, Chairman of the ad hoc committee set up by the House to conduct the probe, Hon. Garba Datti-Muhammad, said the Committee had received hints that the NNPC was actually proceeding with the project in disobedience to the House resolution.

Datti-Muhammad restated the House’s resolution and asked Kachikwu and Baru to halt the TAM until the probe had been concluded saying the panel had commenced the investigation.

“The Committee has commenced action on the matter and its attention has been drawn to the NNPC’s intention to spend $1.8bn on the TAM of the said four refineries,” he said.

“The Committee has communicated to the Minister and the GMD, requesting them to stay action pending the outcome of the committee’s investigation into the matter.”

Datti-Muhammad, who pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with the House to conduct the probe, stated that it would help to unravel the reason the refineries never worked despite the huge funds sunk into TAM in the past.

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