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| Ibe Kachikwu |
Former NNPC
Director, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu,
yesterday disclosed that the Federal Government had committed over $40 billion
on the crisis-ridden Niger Delta region in the last 12 years
Kachikwu,
who made this known in Warri, Delta State when a former Information Minister,
Chief Edwin Clark, hosted him pleaded with the people of the Niger Delta to
embrace peace to ensure rapid development in the area. He said: “We must work
towards the final solution in achieving peace by rejecting violence at all
times.”
The minister while adding that he was 100 per cent committed
to the struggle for the development of the region, revealed that President
Muhammadu Buhari was very interested in the development of the region.
Kachikwu disclosed that he would set up a structure to ensure
the actualisation of peace in the area but warned that he would not take the
declaration of ceasefire for granted. Earlier, Clark had commended the efforts
of President Buhari and the minister for working towards the development of the
region.
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