Nigeria - Former governor of old Kaduna state, Balarabe Musa, has
blamed the G-7 Nations for the unabated oil thefts spanning over three
decades in the country, and said he was worried over the invitation
extended to the President-Elect by these nations, BusinessDay reports.
The G-7 was formed in 1975 and initially comprised 6 nations – France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.S. and U.K. – with Canada invited to join
the group in 1976.
“You are aware that these same G-7 Nations have recently invited the
president-elect for a meeting. What do you think they want to discourse
with him? They are the ones buying Nigeria’s stolen oil. They are
obviously going to discourse their interest with him. Illegal bunkering
is made possible in Nigeria by these nations”.
He said further that the mafias involved in the illegal oil bunkering
were ‘sacred cows’ no past Nigerian leader has been able to touch, and
that even General Buhari could not do anything about them when he was
military head of state.
“Is Buhari courageous enough to put an end to this illegality? Was he
able to touch these people when he was a military ruler? Were there not
certain people he could not touch? Some of the people in the illegal
business are they not around him today? Buhari had a record of giving
selected justice as a military head of state. Nigerians better hope he
will not repeat the same thing as a civilian president”, he said.
He also blamed the current fuel crises on the oil marketers and tasked
the incoming All Progressive Congress (APC) government to establish 14
refineries within the shortest possible time in order to stop
importation of refined petroleum product in the country.
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