CSOs Urge Support For Dangote Refinery

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations successful Nigeria (COCSON), and the Nigerian Interfaith Forum (NIF), person pledged their enactment for the Dangote Petrochemical Refinery portion condemning immoderate effort to sabotage its work

The group, successful a property connection signed by its president, Comrade Ibrahim Suleiman described Dangote Refinery arsenic a nationalist asset, a beacon of concern progress, and a pillar of Nigeria’s refining revolution.

The connection besides kicked against immoderate effort to bring backmost subsidy done the backmost door.

Part of the connection work that “We cannot place the suffering of mean Nigerians. Millions are trapped successful a regular conflict with hunger, inflation, and hardship. Mothers skip meals truthful their children tin eat, fathers locomotion agelong distances to prevention transport fares, and young radical suffer anticipation regular arsenic the outgo of surviving climbs beyond reach.

“At specified a captious time, for DAPPMAN to request that Nigerians underwrite their inefficiencies with ₦1.5 trillion yearly is thing but wickedness. It would rob our hospitals of funding, contradict schools resources, cripple infrastructure development, and support our federation shackled to poverty. This is not subsidy — it is extortion.

“Their request is self-serving; ₦75 per litre for coastal freight and ops cost, translating to ₦1.505 trillion, is thing but greed.”

The radical said it volition organise nationwide rallies and protests calling for the scrapping of DAPPMAN arsenic an association, calling connected the national authorities and nationalist assembly to reappraisal and retreat immoderate undue privileges oregon licenses granted to DAPPMAN.

The connection added that “Strengthen the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) to prioritise and support section refining implicit importation cartels.

“We impulse the national authorities to basal firm, Nigerians to basal united, and Dangote Refinery to basal strong. Together, we volition guarantee that nary group, nary cartel, and nary vested involvement volition derail Nigeria’s refining revolution.”