President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to immediately withdraw oil licences granted a few powerful Nigerians to prospect and export crude oil.
According to a computer expert and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Livinus Okwara, the current recession facing the country requires the government to re-address its policies and needs with a view to democratizing resources’ ownerships and controls and place the nation on the path of sanity and development once again.
He accused past military regimes of being the greatest culprits in vesting ownerships of the oil rigs in the hands of a few of their powerful colleagues and cronies over the years, as against the collective interests of millions of Nigerians.
Livinus described the arrangement as “totally unacceptable and in contrast with the tenets and spirit of the Constitution which stipulates equity, justice and fairness in resource allocation.”
He said President Buhari has the great opportunity to right past wrongs.
He urged the President to also revive agriculture and give the people of the North East ravaged by Boko Haram insurgents soft loans to reduce poverty and engender development in the area.
“When the people of the North East are re-engaged in massive agricultural production, poverty, disease and insecurity would be drastically reduced,” he said.