The Northern Voices for Equity and Justice (NVEJ) has solicited the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), over what it called an unfair distribution of the ongoing Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7 Project contracts across all regions of the country.
In a statement by the group leader, Kabir Ahmed, alleged that managers of the NLNG Train 7 Project want the contractors, Saipem and Daewoo, and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), not to exclude any part of the country in the award contracts on the project.
The NLNG project is anticipated to increase the six processing trains of the plant in Bonny to seven trains as well as increase the current installed capacity to 30 MPTA.
With the approved vendor list exceeding over 300, the NVEJ stated that there is hardly any company from the northern part of Nigeria or their business interests that are involved.
Describing it as a major missing link that continues to fuel the unending divide within the Nigerian socio-economic and political structure, the group maintained that the project remains more than $10 billion (N6 trillion).
It stated that this is inclusive of Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation, and Commission (EPCIC) and is expected to stretch till 2027 or a little beyond if everything goes well.
“Much as we appreciate and support the participation and capacity building of our brothers and sisters in the Niger Delta and the entire South by extension through various projects in the Nigerian oil and gas industry, it has become imperative that these project managers must not look away from other regions,” it said.
