Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said corruption in the oil and gas industry was overblown. Kachikwu said this in Abuja on Thursday at a news briefing shortly after the launch of the new roadmap tagged “The 7 Big Wins”. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads He said, “I think sometimes the corruption indices in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation are overblown, because sometimes people do not understand the technicalities of what is going on and the short answer is corruption. “I do agree that there were all kinds of sleaze stories in the past, but if you look at the last one year and in the last 13 months, those have dramatically disappeared. “The TSA definitely helped, being able to suck in all our funds in one pond, being able to look at long term focus. “The fact that we have saved over a billion dollars through the Direct Sale Direct Purchase programme, it is someth...
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