Don't cancel 260M dollar contracts for ExxonMobil's Usan Field, group tells Kachikwu

The Niger Delta Indigenous
Movement For Radical Change,
NDIMRC, has urged the
Federal Government to ignore
the call by some Stakeholders
in the Nigerian Oil and Gas
industry to cancel the 260M
Dollar Contracts for the
ExxonMobil's Usan Field.

Some Stakeholders, under the
aegis of Nigerian Content
Front (NCF), had requested the
Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Dr. Ibe Emmanuel
Kachikwu, to cancel the 260M
Dollars Contracts awarded for
the ExxonMobil's Usan Field.
But NDIMRC in a swift
reaction, implored Dr.
Kachikwu to ignore the "hired
Stakeholders" seeking for the
cancellation/suspension of the
multi-billion Naira deal.

In a press statement signed by
its President, Nelly Emma,
Secretary, John Sailor and
Public Relations Officer,
Stanley Mukoro, the group
restated that the contract for
the ExxonMobil's Usan Field
followed due process and
reaffirmed its earlier clean bill
of health on the National
Petroleum Investment
Management Services
(NAPIMS), a subsidiary of the
NNPC.
According to the group; "We
want to restate that those
seeking for the cancellation of
the contract duly awarded and
threatening to drag NAPIMS
before the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) are being economical
with the truth.

This multi- billion Naira deal was
managed by Total Upstream
Nigeria Limited (TUPNI) for
two years before it was taken
over by ExxonMobil and it is
not true that NAPIMS allegedly
approved the contract
illegally."
The group also said that; "The
NNPC has cleared the air on
this issue in a recent
advertorial in one of the
national dailies and we have
expected that those still
rooting for the cancellation of
the contract would have
allowed a sleeping dog to lie."

The statement by NDIMRC
added that; "The records of
the NNPC concerning the
contract for the provision of
0lMR Vessel and WROV
Services for Usan operations
proposed termination of
contract by ESSO are straight
enough and it is our humble
appeal to the Federal
Government to ignore the hired
Stakeholders who are out to
mislead the public by calling
for the cancellation of the
contract as NNPC has set the
records straight on the issue."

The group while hailing the
anti-corruption stance of
President Muhammadu Buhari
and the Minister of State for
Petroleum Resources, Dr.
Kachikwu said that; "The new
management of NAPIMS has
brought a lot of innovations
into the system and deserves
commendations, especially for
the promotion of the Nigerian
Local Content."
"In as much as people have
the freedom of speech, the
right to their personal opinion
of which we are expressing
here,

it is very wrong and
worrisome for some hired
Stakeholders in the Nigerian
Oil and Gas Sector to mislead
the whole world by calling on
the Federal Government to
cancel the contract for the
ExxonMobil's Usan Field and
we plead with the Government
to ignore such self serving
call," NDIMRC said.