Battle oil mafia, NNPCL should make refineries work — Obaigbena

The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY Media Group and ARISE News Channel, Nduka Obaigbena, has challenged the Federal Government to put the four government-owned refineries in the country to work, to checkmate the oil mafias in the country.

Obaigbena, speaking as the Chairman of the All Nigeria Editors Conference in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said, said, “If we are going to use whatever means to deal with the oil mafias, we should keep our refineries alive. If you say you want to stop monopoly, then our four refineries must work. Let those four refineries compete with Dangote Refinery.

“We challenge the Minister of Information and Bayo Onanuga to get the refineries working. Everybody is feeling the pain in the country. The time is hard but Nigerian journalists are harder, so you have to be tough to cope with the time.

“I can see that the future can be better if we give Tinubu’s reform a face, we should support the reform but we must make sure that the vulnerable are supported.