A member of the Northern Elders
Forum, Usman Bugaje has claimed that there is no oil producing state in
Nigeria.
He said Nigeria is the only oil
producing state, adding that no state in the country should lay claim to the
natural resources.
According to Bugaje who was
addressing the elders forum, the north is the only region in Nigeria that could
lay claim to the oil because of its landmass.
He said 72% of the country’s
landmass belongs to the north and by United Nation’s law, it is only the north
that has the right to claim ownership of the oil.
According to him, “There is no oil producing state. The only oil producing state is the Nigeria state itself.
“Because the investments come from the Nigerian state; the territory belongs to the Nigerians state.
“It the measure of land mass that you have that will give you the mileage to the sea.”
He claimed that it is the landmass of a nation that determines how much of the ocean it would owe, noting that the north has made Nigeria to owe the oil producing areas because of its landmass.
“In the landmass of this country, as we know, that gives us that lounged of 200 miles and more into the ocean is because of that 72% landmass of this country which is the north.
“So what they claim is the offshore oil is actually for the north. If anybody should own it, is the north.
“So we should stop using these terms that make no sense at all. There are no oil producing states. It is only the Nigerian state that produces oil.”
God punish u there. Block head that says 1+1=11.
ReplyDeleteKwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!!! Wetin persn no go hear from these almajiris
ReplyDeleteThis is the perception behind the idea why most of the oil blocks are owned by the northerners and their cronies. If the oil belongs to the nigerian state as you claim, it then amount to cheating and injustice for a region to control what belongs to all of us. If any administration has liver and determine to fight corruption, let it start by revoking the oil license of these few individuals who have laid claim to our common wealth because we can't be finding where to borrow five naira to buy groundnut when we have enough cash in our pocket to buy bags of it.
ReplyDeletethe man is reasoning very poorly, what a pity!!!
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ReplyDeleteThen the entire oil deposits and natural resources in Alaska, USA, should belong to Russia because their landmass abuts the entire North pole. May Lugard, the author of amalgamation, never rest in peace for joining us with nitwits for the sake of British national interests!
ReplyDeleteI dey hear u na with all kind of insult to the north and it's populace I pity una as you don't have parental control and discipline.
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