Group president, and chief executive of the dangote group owners of the dangote refinery, aliko dangote has called for proactive measures on the part of government to save the midstream and the downstream sectors of the Nigerian Oil and gas space from corruption to prevent it from eventually collapsing.
The group president of the dangote group made the call weekend during a media engagement where he accused the chief executive officer of the Nigerian midstream and downstream petroleum regulatory authority farouk ahmed of corruption, a development he said if not quickly tamed could potentially destroy the midstream and downstream petroleum sector of the nation’s economy.
Aliko Dangote during the media engagement noted that the current CEO of the NMDPRA has spent huge sums to the tune of 5 million dollars to train four of his children in a secondary school in Switzerland. While noting that as a tax payer, and a business man of great sucess he is not in a position to spend such huge sum of monies to fund secondary education for his own children wondered where the CEO of the NMDPRA could have gotten such money as a public servant with no traceable investments to fund the secondary education of his four children in a foreign school.
While declaring that he will proceed to show evidence of his allegation of corruption against farouk ahmed in the event of denial, aliko dangote said the nation’s oil and gas sector must be guided from individuals who are out to explore it for their personal selfish interest thereby underming the country’s economy.
The dangote group president who also disclosed that he would lead the advocacy to ensure that the CEO is brought to account called on farouk ahmed to come clean and explain his source of wealth, declaring further that the midstream and downstream petroleum sector is too strategic to be left under the control of individuals whose source of wealth are not clearly established.
“The man must come and explain to Nigerians how he paid 5million dollars for six years of his children’s education”, “We must make sure that people don’t come and destroy a country just because they want to make a living that is not genuine or legal” aliko dangote declared.
The president of the dangote refinery also declared that he will approach the code of conduct tribunal in this renewed fight to ensure that the nation’s oil and gas sector is rid off corruption to entrench transparency and accountability in the sector.
