Saraki spoke at a dinner organised as part of activities at the ongoing 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja yesterday.Last night, it was a pleasure to spend some time with Nigeria’s business community at @NESGNigeria’s #NES24. There, I spoke about how we need closer collaboration between the private and public sectors in order for us to move from poverty to prosperity. https://t.co/7xAXs9U8CR— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) October 23, 2018
According to Saraki, the resolve by the legislature to mount pressure to ensure the bill gets presidential assent has become necessary, given its importance to the development of the oil and gas sector in Nigeria.
That bill, a lot of people when we started said we cannot do it, but we demonstrated we have the political will and the commitment to do it.
We passed the governance bill and it went to the executive. What I expected considering the kind of work that was done was for us both arms to sit down because the issues that were raised are not issues that are not surmountable.
Unfortunately, after so many months, the bill has come back with a query, that can easily be trashed out in a day session.
Those in the petroleum sector will agree with me that they have never seen the engagement we saw in the governance bill. Secondly, we had the fiscal bill and we have taken it to the point that has never been archived, but I believe a lot of the operators will want to ask what will happen to the fiscal bill if the governance bill was not assented to.
Our intention is to go back to the executive and sit down with them in the interest of Nigeria. This is a very good bill as most operators and the technical people in the sector commended it.
He said the observation made on the bill was not enough reasons to stop its assent because of the huge positive impact it would make on investments in the sector. Because as you know, there is no serious investment going in the oil and gas sector because people are not sure of what to expect.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, speaks about the formation of #NASSBER, and some of the work that the 8th @NASSNigeria has done to strengthen Nigeria’s economy. #NES24 pic.twitter.com/tcmSpg1uEI— The Senate President (@SPNigeria) October 23, 2018
“The Petroleum Industry Bill (#PIB) should have been an Executive Bill, unfortunately it wasn’t...”— The Senate President (@SPNigeria) October 23, 2018
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, speaking about @NASSNigeria’s passage of the #PIGB at @NESGNigeria’s #NES24. pic.twitter.com/19MwX9CMYV
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