FG to engage foreign countries to check oil theft
- Written by Leon Usigbe -Abuja
- Monday, 30 September 2013
WORRIED about the easy access of stolen crude oil from Nigeria
to world markets, the Federal Government has decided to engage the
recipient countries to convince them to put measures in place to check
the trend.
The Supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri, on Sunday, told newsmen at the sidelines of the ongoing 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that government would utilise every available forum with foreign countries to press for the need to deny crude oil thieves access to their markets.
Noting that the ready market for the stolen crude oil had fuelled the illegal activity in the country, she said government would not fold its arms and allow saboteurs to damage the economy.
Onwuliri remarked that Nigeria was determined to pursue a policy of encouraging foreign governments to stop the purchase of illegal crude just as it had pressed for the control of small arms and nuclear disarmament.
The Supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri, on Sunday, told newsmen at the sidelines of the ongoing 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that government would utilise every available forum with foreign countries to press for the need to deny crude oil thieves access to their markets.
Noting that the ready market for the stolen crude oil had fuelled the illegal activity in the country, she said government would not fold its arms and allow saboteurs to damage the economy.
Onwuliri remarked that Nigeria was determined to pursue a policy of encouraging foreign governments to stop the purchase of illegal crude just as it had pressed for the control of small arms and nuclear disarmament.
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