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Only Restructuring Can Save Nigeria -Nwokedi > 9ja News - 31/01/2018

A philanthropist and Igbo leader in Lagos, Chief Chika Nwokedi, has said that only restructuring can save Nigeria. Nwokedi who is the President General of an Igbo social cultural group, Ndi Igbo Buru Otu Association of Nigeria, believes that Igbo are been marginalised and are left out in the prime positions in the nation. Igbo are crying of marginalisation, what’s your reaction to this? I would say that the dilemma started from Nigeria. For instance, you are a mother and you have eight young children and of these eight children one is crying each day. You would call that youngster and locate out why the youngster was crying and uncover a option to it. You would discover that the youngster would cease crying. They are your kids, don’t like seven and leave one out. When you refuse to get in touch with the youngster on time and leave him to preserve crying, it can bring about a effective headache but when you get in touch with the child on time to discuss, the issue would be solved, so that’s what is happening in Nigeria now. Igbo are left out in the top positions in this nation. Verify the police, Army, and Customs and see what we have there, let us say the truth, and that is why some individuals are crying. I think in one Nigeria. God does not know who is Mr. Obi or who is Mr. John, what God knows is that the blood that he place inside us is red. All of us are 1 each foreigners in London, Germany and so on. For God the identity is in our blood not our face, so God knows why he made everybody and gave them a single red blood, there’s no one that has black or yellow blood, so I don’t know why in this nation items are the way they are. Do you believe in restructuring Nigeria? Yes, simply because as I told you just before, every lady loves her kids it does not matter if the kid is a criminal or not. Restructuring is the only factor that can save this nation. Igbo are constantly blamed for developing other cities exactly where they reside, creating industries and mansions, though some of them don’t even have a block in their villages and individuals are ridiculing them as a outcome of this. What’s your advice to them? There is no higher advice for them than what is going on now. An additional point is that Igbo are Jews and there is no way you can do without having the Igbo, that’s a gift from God. If one particular Igbo man enters a bush exactly where there is no one, he would make it, that is the present of the Igbo and no one can cease it. Also, nobody can destroy all the Igbo, even if it is only a single Igbo man that is left, he would take more than. So what is going on now has provided us the advice that we need and there’s no want for me to say something. Why did you choose to type the Ndi Igbo Buru Otu of Nigeria Association? I would say it is a gift I inherited from my father and grandfather mainly because they had hearts of giving. My father came to Onitsha, Anambra State at a young age and had a lot more than six buildings there, he was rich. My mother mentioned that he even gave lands to some individuals then and constructed homes for widows prior to he died in 1980 when I was eight years old. My grandfather also built a town hall and a market place in my location Obodoukwu, Imo State for my individuals. At times the needy like widows would come to my home for assist. When it was becoming also considerably, I decided to type this organisation to help individuals. I would go to police station and see some of our Igbo individuals that are about to be taken to court just for the reason that of N50,000 or N100,000, but Rather of taking them to court I would decide to spend with my individual funds. You can discover out at Ijegun police station how a lot of individuals I have paid revenue for which I do not even know from anyplace. At times I would be there to see the Divisional Police Officer and they’ll inform them to meet me, pointing at me. There is no way I would have cash and not save individuals mainly because one would die a single day, and the Bible says that ‘Whatsoever a man sow he shall reap and right after death comes judgment’. God will ask you questions on what you did in life. Once again, I was the former Chairman of Ladipo Market for virtually four years and I broke the record. I travelled to Abuja in the course of the election to go and do a job in 1999 and prior to I came back, a group of youths had place up an agreement that I will have to contest. They even paid the election charge on my behalf. Everybody around also insisted that I need to contest. It became a trouble and so they agreed that I contest. Some individuals took my pictures and created posters and paste everywhere. There have been 11 contestants and all of them were far richer than me because at that time I had only a counter not even a shop. I was staying in somebody’s shop exactly where I had a counter mainly because in Ladipo four individuals can share a shop. The other contestants had not just shops but warehouses and they had travelled abroad at one particular time or the other. On the day of the election I won. Additional than one hundred automobiles in convoy followed me to my one particular room apartment at Ejigbo. It was that day that I knew that individuals love me. Before I contested I was the treasurer so due to the fact of what I did that was why the youth supported me. When I became the chairman I brought heavy security, telephone booths, light and so several items to Ladipo. In truth within 3 months, Ladipo changed. So maybe I’ll say it is what my father had sown that I’m reaping now that is why I have this heart. I formed this organisation about a year and 3 months ago. We began with few members, but we are virtually 500 members now, and every day we get about 4 or 5 new members, so it is increasing. Initially some individuals had been not interested but when they saw what we are undertaking they joined.

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Adebutu: We’re Investing In Nigeria And Building A New Globe Of Possibilities >> Naija News -.

How large is this Oil City and what is strategic about it?

What we are commissioning on Tuesday (tomorrow) is our ultra-modern day tank farm which comprises Phase 1 of our 10 year expansion programme. To date, we have acquired more than 13,000 acres of prime land and presently concluding the negotiation of yet another 12,000 acres, to make the Petrolex Oil City at 101 square kilometres, Africa’s biggest petroleum goods hub, with a size that is about ten % the size of Lagos state.

The tank farm enables petroleum solutions to be stored and distributed successfully and far more efficiently, enabling for far better services and higher turnovers.

With the capacity to turnover 600 million litres of petroleum merchandise every single month, the tank farm is set to enhance petroleum merchandise distribution in Nigeria.

This legacy investment, audited by Price tag Waterhouse Coopers, is more than $330 million. It is positioned to transform the future of petroleum items distribution in Nigeria as sub-Saharan Africa’s largest solutions storage tank so far. The mega oil city houses the state of the art Petrolex tank farm which has a 300 million-litre storage facility, residential quarters, army barracks, 30 loading gantries, gas processing plant, vessels, and a 4000-truck capacity park with accommodation for drivers. The trailer park alone is an innovation with an automation and speed that is vital to the delivery of the efficiency that the sector demands. In addition, we have put an expansion plan in location which will boost the storage capacity of the tank farm to 1.2 billion litres in a few years.

Our facility is effortlessly reachable via the waterways, with simple access from the Atlantic Ocean, proximity to the Lagos industry, and straightforward accessibility to the Northern & Eastern components of Nigeria, all to help provide and distribution of petroleum products around the country.

We are proactively advancing discussions with various state governments to assure consistent and sufficient provide of petroleum items to other regions of the nation.

But this just the beginning of other factors planned for the future.

What shift do you anticipate Petrolex to effect in the neighborhood oil and gas market?

Very first and foremost, the Mega Oil city is set to make over 10,000 new direct and indirect jobs in the short term. It will also guarantee enhanced and efficient delivery of merchandise to retail markets.

It will lead to more than 15 per cent reduction in retail price to stations, a massive decongestion of the Apapa and Ibafo tanker visitors and elimination of hazards associated with storage and transportation of petroleum merchandise in these areas of higher population density.

Apart from this petroleum items bulk storage distribution, retailing and refining, are the major hyperlinks in Petrolex’s medium-term drive for growth. We plan to deploy a fleet of at least 150 vessels, barges and tugboats to provide a litany of services across Africa’s waters. Petrolex presently has 16 barges, 8 tug boats and a 30KT vessel.

Inform us about the sustainability element of this project

Our one of a kind sustainability model contains a extensive environment conservation and reforestation programme and a thriving host-community engagement framework while its corporate social investments continually add worth to millions of lives.

1 of the challenges the oil and gas sector has faced in Nigeria is the problem of sustainability. A further is the entire range of problems surrounding nearby content and participation.

We put these into consideration in setting up Petrolex oil city. We can say that the local neighborhood was carried along in the entire gamut of events beginning from inception, to the commissioning of the tank farm which comes up on December 12. As a matter of truth, the commissioning of the project will be monitored in most of the regional communities surrounding the place of Petrolex oil city.

Apart from this, we carried along conventional rulers and pressure groups. But beyond these, this project will provide jobs to thousand of locals and increase their incomes. We are also delivering infrastructure like roads. I must add that all of these points are being accomplished currently in 1 way or the other. In summary, our substantial social investment is planned to influence more than two million lives

ls Petrolex going to be listed someday?

We are targeting listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in the next 10 years to assure the small business outlives its owners and becomes larger. By the next five years we would have accomplished a considerable amount of our ambition, then commence tactic talks with the stock exchanges.

How is the local community responding to Petrolex?

The nearby community have accepted us with open arms. What you should know is that we are portion of the community itself. So it was not a query of strangers coming to set up a facility in Ibefun. We have been element of this community for a pretty long time, what’s distinctive is that we are manifesting in a various form.

We are grateful to all our essential stakeholders who have created this a reality. From the federal government, the Vice President who has gracious accepted top rated commission the tank farm, to the Ogun State Governor, His Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosu, the Liken of Ibefun, all the regulatory agencies, our workers, etc. We have enjoyed tremendous assistance all the way.

Are you afraid of electric cars?

Undoubtedly not! They will at some point complement our improvement. But for now, we should make the finest out of what we have and in performing so we should function to see that current technology works side by side with what electric cars can provide. It is specific that in the brief to medium term, electric automobiles may possibly not be as well known as lots of individuals are painting them to be, especially in the creating planet. But that does not having said that mean that we should really not be receiving ready for what is a certain future.

What are your final words?

A New Globe of Possibilities" aptly captures the ever-evolving spirit of Petrolex, as we will not relent till we see Nigeria transformed into an energy self-reliant nation in the quick future. As integrated power conglomerate with strategic investments across the energy worth chain, we are committed to creating communities, transforming lives and driving financial development and development in Nigeria.