{"id":86184,"date":"2021-09-21T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86184"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:13:28","slug":"senator-wants-enugu-listed-among-oil-producing-states-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senator-wants-enugu-listed-among-oil-producing-states-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator wants Enugu listed among oil producing states in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m8105\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Chukwuka Utazi (PDP-Enugu) has appealed the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to declare Enugu as an oil producing state, due to the oil wells located in the state.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nUtazi said this while speaking on Order 43 of the Senate at plenary on Tuesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said that three lawmakers from Enugu, Kogi and Anambra had lobbied for the recognition of the states as oil producing states during the 8th Senate.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Utazi said however, that although RMAFC had declared Kogi and Anambra as oil producing states, Enugu was yet to be declared so, insisting that OPL 915 and 916 oil wells were located in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSenators representing the Senatorial district that have boundary with Enugu and Anambra States have discussed this issue throughout the 8th Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the frequency of our discussion, this Assembly asked the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR )to look into the issue to find out and settle the issue permanently within this three states so that they could enjoy the 13 per cent derivation given deposits of hydrocarbon in the area.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSo the committee that was set up by the Petroleum Upstream invited the DPR and we discussed with them extensively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave us a condition that any state that wants to become an oil producing state will need to fulfill certain conditions,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Utazi added:\u201dI want to say that Anambra has Orient Oil Producing Company that has been there trying to extract crude oil in that basin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter our meeting, the DPR wrote to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) on July 24, 2018 saying that the Orient Petroleum that is operating between Kogi, Anambra and Enugu has not fulfilled certain conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIn view of the foregoing, the Orient Petroleum Company has no status of an oil producing company, therefore, Anambra, Kogi and Enugu cannot be classified as oil producing states for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm happy that we are inching towards resolution of the matter, at the 8th Assembly we jointly sponsored a motion here the entire Senators, that is Isaac Alfa, Kogi East, Chukwuka Utazi, Enugu North and Stella Oduah, Anambra North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in his response noted Utazi\u2019s point of order.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chukwuka Utazi (PDP-Enugu) has appealed the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to declare Enugu as an oil producing state, due to the oil wells located in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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