Protect Dangote Refinery From Saboteurs, Students Beg Govt

Members of the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) person appealed to the national authorities to support and shield Dangote Refinery against the activities of economical saboteurs.

They made the request during a solidarity rally led by the association’s nationalist president, Comrade Eshiofune Paul Oghayan.

During the rally, the students carried placards and chanted solidarity songs nether the theme: “Protecting National Assets, Securing Youth Futures: NAPS Solidarity with Dangote Refinery for Economic Growth and Stability.”

In his code astatine the lawsuit successful Abuja connected Tuesday, Oghayan described the multi-billion-dollar installation arsenic “a nationalist fortress built connected backstage sacrifice,” insisting that it indispensable beryllium shielded from interests bent connected frustrating Nigeria’s concern rebirth.

He called connected the national authorities to allocate 100 percent crude lipid proviso to the refinery to alteration afloat accumulation capacity.

“When we provender this refinery fully, it volition flood the marketplace with supply, clang the terms of fuel, and stabilise our economy,” helium stated.

The NAPS president besides asked ministries, departments and agencies to prioritise locally refined products, arguing that doing truthful would beforehand concern growth, make jobs, and fortify the country’s economical sovereignty.

“Buy Nigerian, usage Nigerian, and support Nigerian,” Oghayan said. “The nations that predominate the satellite became large by protecting what they nutrient and producing what they protect. Nigeria indispensable bash the same.”

The students hailed the Dangote Refinery arsenic not lone a beacon of concern advancement but besides a “living campus” for Nigerian youths. Each year, thousands of polytechnic and monotechnic students acquisition Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) grooming astatine the facility, gaining hands-on vulnerability to concern processes.

Describing the refinery arsenic “the refinery of time built today,” Oghayan noted that the works refines 650,000 barrels per time and produces Euro-6 modular fuels, with plans to grow capableness to 1.4 cardinal barrels, making it the largest single-train refinery successful the world.

However, helium cautioned against attempts by vested interests wrong PENGASSAN, NUPENG, and DAPMAN to derail its operations, accusing them of serving the interests of petroleum importers.

“The aforesaid forces that killed the Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Warri refineries are rising again — not with guns, but with strikes, deceit, and blackmail,” helium said. “They are tools successful the hands of those who nett erstwhile Nigeria bleeds.”

Oghayan reaffirmed that Nigerian youths would defy immoderate crippled to undermine the refinery, stressing that “an onslaught connected Dangote Refinery is an onslaught connected Nigeria’s concern future.”