Dr. Maikanti Baru, has urged the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, to assist in the protection of NNPC’s facilities from vandals.
The
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), said this in Benin on Wednesday when he paid homage to the
monarch.
He said NNPC had two major
companies in Benin, the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) and
Integrated Data Service (IDSL).
Baru said the support was needed to end
pipeline vandalism, adding that NNPC was using a huge sum of money to
repair the pipelines destroyed.
The NNPC
chief executive also appealed to Oba Ewuare II to help educate the
people of oil and gas producing communities to create enabling
environment that world, in the short term, provide economic benefits
to the people.
He assured the Oba that
NNPC would continue to provide scholarships to the youth in the host
communities, especially those studying related courses and the orphans.
Oba
Ewuare urged Baru and the NNPC to do more in the provision of
contracts and employments to the people in the host communities.
The monarch further appealed to the NNPC to do more in providing sufficient food for the people.
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