PassingShot:
Before March 28, 2015 Elections:

6. Feb 2015 - Nigerian Engineers to Repair Refineries for N99bn –NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday said it had engaged the services of in-house engineers to rehabilitate the country’s three ailing refineries at a cost of $550m (N99bn), down from the $1.6bn (N288bn) presented to it by foreign contractors.
The refineries are the Port Harcourt Refining Company, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited and the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited.

The Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals, NNPC, Mr. Ian Udoh, stated that the corporation resolved to use indigenous engineers because it could not pay the bills of foreign contractors who were nominated by the original builders of the refineries.
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigerian-engineers-to-repair-refineries-for-n99bn-nnpc/


Still in March 2015:

7. March 2015 – NNPC to repair refineries with $550m
The Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the nation’s refineries will cost $550million, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said yesterday. The corporation blamed the TAM’s delay on the refusal of the original builders of the four refineries to handle the maintenance contracts.
There are two refineries in Port Harcourt, one in Kaduna and another in Warri. They are all working below capacity, unable to meet the consumption demands of Nigerians. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/nnpc-to-repair-refineries-with-550m/

8. As recent as March 6, 2015 - Refineries’ll be back on stream 2016 –NNPC
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday assured that the nation’s four refineries would be fully back on stream in the first quarter of 2016. The corporation also explained why the refineries have not been working optimally, disclosing that NNPC could not afford to pay the outrageous charges of its builders.

The corporation’s Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy, Dr. Tim Okon, disclosed these while updating members of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) on activities of the refineries.
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/refineriesll-be-back-on-stream-2016-nnpc/
June 18, 2015 - Nigeria’s refineries to resume production next month
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/nigerias-refineries-to-resume-production-next-month-official/
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Going by the stated sequence of events in our refineries as given by NNPC, is there any link or development in the time past to warrant getting the latest news that our refineries will resume production in July?

The spokesman, Ohi Alegbe, stated that “the operations resume after a successful turn-around-maintenance (overhaul) of their facilities” but they didn’t just want to make noise about it! Who is fooling who?

Let GEJ’s supporters help us answer the following questions?
1. When has TAM of plants become an action conducted in secrecy?
2. When was the TAM awarded and to which company?
3. If local engineers were used, who paid the N99bn that was reported to be needed as recent as last February?

Conclusion
I am of the strong opinion that GEJ was completely fooled not only by Diezani and her cohorts but also by the sycophants he surrounded himself with. The man must surely be biting his fingers wherever he is currently. In not making our refineries work, the oil cabals saw a huge avenue to corruptly enrich themselves and they seized the opportunity through oil subsidies.

It is not unknown what PMB’s stand on fuel subsidy is. He has consistently maintained that the oil subsidy was a fraud and that he would look into why our refineries have not worked. PMB recently rubbished the fuel subsidy scam when he said “I don’t know what fuel subsidy means” - http://dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/top-stories/20804-i-don-t-know-what-fuel-subsidy-means-buhari.

The president has also been reported to be set to probe NNPC N30trn unaccounted oil revenue under Jonathan - http://www.nationaldailyng.com/news/latest-news/4116-buhari-set-to-probe-nnpc-n30trn-unaccounted-oil-revenue-under-jonathan

The fact of the matter is that, NNPC’s top shots are aware of what PMB knows. They know him to know the workings of NNPC and our refineries having been a petroleum minister and a former Head of State. As such, it is reasonable to expect the corporation (NNPC) to act differently with him than what they did with GEJ.

The famous quote by Abraham Lincoln is very apt here:
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”


I therefore challenge any of GEJ's supporters and sympathizers to prove other



wise.

GOATandYAMtheory:
Sure, passingshot. To the best of my knowledge, the refineries could have been fixed during GEJ's regime, but they chose to tell Nigerians a story that will give them enough opportunity to scam us till the end of their tenure.

I could remember vividly when the NNPC gave estimate of how much it will cost them to fix our refineries (in Feb 2015 b4 handing over), when they also gave us the duration of a year b4 it can be operational.

In NNPC's words:
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigerian-engineers-to-repair-refineries-for-n99bn-nnpc/

I wonder what happened overnight that they are now saying it will begin to funtion by next month.

Now this is my "church mind"; if President Muhammadu Buhari refuses to jail any1, among those involved in this NNPC scam, the respect I have for him will reduce or even vanish.

StOla:


You are a pathological dullard.

Delivery dates have suddenly changed within a period of 4 months and the completion is now just a month away, yet you still find it unreasonable that a criminal collusion existed between the government and the beneficiaries of our sorry state of affairs.

Meanwhile the minister was already planning to sell off the same assets we are to now enjoy.

You are a dream citizen of an enemy within posing as a patriotic government.

Change couldn't have come at a better time.

ogazi007:
Who is talking about Nigeria budget really?The past administration had no respect whatsoever for budgetary Provisions.We are all a witness to how they spent close to 2 trillion on fuel subsidy scam in 2010/11.Was that budgeted for?

Clerverly:


So, Ngwakwe jonathan knew that the plants would work by July and you and Fani Kayode didn't use it for campaigns? Stop deceiving your gullible followers!

PassingShot:

Prove your point with documented evidence.

I have provided you links of NNPC's positions as recent as March 2015.

What you call subsidy only existed in the imagination of those who believed in it. I can bet that up to 80% of subsidy claims is scam.

StOla:



Yet we had money to pay more as subsidy to friends of the president?
Yet we preferred to import at international price via licensed importers when the government could have taken charge of delivering the crude to a refinery abroad and getting its content worth of all crude oil fractions as postulated by Buhari, to meet up for shortages due to capacity limitations of our refineries?

kaboninc:


This is one reason why subsidy has to go.

And go now!

bushdoc9919:
Good post...and after reading it....I am annoyed with NNPC.

Looks like someone in that NNPC was playing games not only with Nigerians...but also with GEJ.

Now that Baba is there.....

Still...the fact remains that even at full capacity.....we still need new refineries. Nigeria consumes about 40million liters of fuel daily. Our refineries at full capacity produce 19 million liters of fuel a day. We need new ones....and we will still be importing for now.

geesampower:

Exactly. All of a sudden it was possible to repair the refineries with JUST 99billion naira while we spent over 4trillion naira subsidizing on imported petroleum products the same refineries cld be producing.

CSTR2:
Idiott.
On one hand it is too early for buhari to stem the tides of bokoharam, yet it is not too early for buhari to claim another man's labours.
Replying to your thread beyond this would be a very stupidd thing to do.
Enjoy your self-delusion with your likes.
Bye.

Whynotthetruth:


Not at all...buhari said there's nothing like subsidy alongside his party...so any attempt to remove it would be challenged too...

If he tries to remove it; I support NLC...TUC...etc to embark on protest...demand salary increase...etc...

philips70:
Jonathan was a criminal second only to Lawrence Nomayagbon Anini in the 5 years he held sway. The worst of Buhari's government will distant his best in the coming years. Thank God Nigerians did the needful. Tinubu, Amaechi and all of us the social media giants are heroes of inestimable value.

atlwireles:


You know 99% of the noise makers on this thread don't know this to be the real situation on ground.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:


You haven't heard, No more excess crude account/derivatives

Was there anytime there was 100% budget implementation?

How many times were supplementary budget forwarded to NASS to that effect?

sinkhole:
Thank God for those of us who voted for Baba o! If not so those refineries would have still be under TAM by now with another billions of dollars given out while the masses groan!

kaboninc:


Another alternate for jpphilips?

Firefire:


Buhary that is still struggling to form his cabinet ?

SGF unavailable

CoS unavailable

Ministerial list - infighting still ongoing among the 'civilian coup plotters'

I challenge you to show us where PMB ordered the refineries repairs.

I admit the cabal in oil sector are really powerful as admitted also by PMB

The same cabal are in our power sector.

Until we Nigerians come together to say enough is enough nothing like CHANGE can eve happen.

tunde1200:
Conclusion
I am of the strong opinion that GEJ was completely fooled not only by Diezani and her cohorts but also by the sycophants he surrounded himself with. The man must surely be biting his fingers wherever he is currently. In not making our refineries work, the oil cabals saw a huge avenue to corruptly enrich themselves and they seized the opportunity through oil subsidies.

It is not unknown what PMB’s stand on fuel subsidy is. He has consistently maintained that the oil subsidy was a fraud and that he would look into why our refineries have not worked. PMB recently rubbished the fuel subsidy scam when he said “I don’t know what fuel subsidy means”

adioolayi:
Are you pained?

Maghan37:
Well No thnks 2 blind,sentimental tribalistic bats like u who cannot see d truth right in front of dem dat lack objectivity dat dis country failed 2 move 4ward.

CSTR2:
Idiott.
[size=15pt]On one hand it is too early for buhari to stem the tides of bokoharam, yet it is not too early for buhari to claim another man's labours.[/size]
Replying to your thread beyond this would be a very stupidd thing to do.
Enjoy your self-delusion with your likes.
Bye.

danla44:
BugariPhobia is enough to make NNPC work. long live PMB. Jonathan is a coward.