FEC approves N2.5bn for pipeline installation – TheNigerialawyer

A pipeline installation to transport dry gas through the North
and South corridors to the West corridor has been approved by the
Federal Executive Council at the cost of N2.5bn.

The 30-kilometre project, which is operated by Shell and Seplat,
has a dollar component of $32m.

It is designed to transport dry gas through the corridors and
has a completion period of 18 months.

The approval was one of several memos considered by the FEC in
Abuja, during a 10-hour meeting that dragged into the night on
Wednesday.

The session, which was presided over by President Muhammadu
Buhari, ended about 10 pm.

Findings indicated that the FEC members came under pressure to
hold the long session in a bid to treat many outstanding memos as
the May 29 handover drew nearer.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu,
said the aim of the pipeline contract, to be executed by the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was to ease the movement
of gas across the country.

Kachikwu explained, “The significance of this is that the more
we can gather gas to feed-stock the pipelines that were built, the
easier it will be to create that hop we are looking for to move gas
around the corridors of Nigeria, north, south, east and west as the
case may be.”

He added that the ministry got another memo approved for the
procurement of fire trucks for the headquarters of the Nigerian
Content Monitoring Board at the cost of N420m.

The council also looked into the problem of open defecation in
the country and the Federal Government’s bid to end it by 2025.

Buhari, as part of the government’s plan, is to launch the
“Clean Nigeria, Use The Toilet” campaign to end open defecation by
about 47million people in the majority of the country’s 774 local
government areas.

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suliaman Adamu, while
speaking on the issue, said the campaign would be a follow-up to
the National Action Plan for Revitalising the Water Supply,
Sanitation and Hygiene, which Buhari had launched in 2018.

As of today, only 10 of the 774 LGAs are free of open
defecation, a number the minister described as “dismal.”

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