President Muhammadu Buhari says the sophistication involved in the bombings of oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta indicates that those behind it are not ordinary Nigerians, but professionals.

Buhari stated this at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday shortly after he was decorated as the grand patron of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAE).

President Buhari specifically charged the NAE to appeal to its members not to deploy their skills for the destruction of the the infrastructure built over the years.

He said: “If I will go in the negative side, ‎how can an ordinary Nigerian go into the sea, 70 kilometres or more, go down two meters and blow up oil installations? That cannot be an ordinary Nigerian. So, I hope you will appeal to your colleagues to make sure that what we have built, they should regard it whether they are working with multi-nationals or the government.”

Buhari, who disagreed that Nigerian engineers were under-utilised, said his government would utilise the talents and skills of local engineers to rebuild the nation’s ailing infrastructure.

“If Nigerian engineers are denied their roles, it is not the fault of the profession, it is the fault of some individual governments. Other governments have done their best and found Nigerian engineers competent and cost effective. Nigerian engineers are very quick in up-taking and performing in the field,” he said.

President Buhari also acknowledged that well-trained and highly experienced engineers contributed immensely to the nation’s infrastructural development.

According to the president, both military and civilian administrations over the years depended on Nigerian engineers for designs and constructions across the country.

“By insisting that we must be cost effective in building infrastructure, we will utilise Nigerian engineers. I respect them a lot, and I know it takes time to be trained as an engineer,’’ he said.

He said local engineers contributed more than 90 percent to the design and realisation of two refineries, 2,500 km of pipelines and 20 depots in the country during his tenure as Minister of Petroleum in the mid-1970s.

The president added that the success of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was largely hinged on the skills of local engineers.

“Somehow, every time and anywhere I have served in this country, we found it cost effective to use Nigerian engineers, and we relied on their capacity to understudy, learn and deliver,” he stated.

The president said individual political leaders should be blamed for the nation’s ailing infrastructure, not the engineers who, he noted, had always been willing to contribute to national development.

“It will be wrong to fault Nigerian engineers for the failure of refineries. You should blame the political leadership. How can you build and not know how to maintain an asset,” he said.

In her remarks, NAE President Joanna Maduka described science and technology as well as innovation as key drivers of growth across the globe.

She lauded Buhari’s administration’s anti-corruption war, expressing optimism that it would turn around the fortunes of the economy.

Maduka, while urging the Federal Government to explore and engage the multiple engineering talents in Nigeria for more purposeful results, said the government’s effort towards fixing the infrastructure was very crucial to the development of the country.

“The physical indices of development of any country are engineering based like roads, railways, water supply, power, housing and other infrastructure. However, Nigerian engineers are under-utilised for the tasks and challenges of nation building. For the country to attain sustainable growth status, the Nigerian engineers need to be adequately engaged in planning, policy formulation, consultancy and construction as well as industrial processes of production and manufacturing.

“Furthermore, the fact is that Nigeria is grossly under-engineered as there are insufficient engineering professionals taking the population per capita basis. For example, in China, between 2000 and 2013, all the nine members of the standing committee (Ministers) of the Politburo were trained engineers. Currently, about half of the cabinet ministers in Singapore are engineers and in China, 70 per cent of the cabinet are engineers”.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/professionals-bombing-oil-installations-buhari/173834.html#bcIIrFqv3ywEjssI.99

Hm

Mumu president

Well said.

Let d blame game and excuses continue.
Mumummadu Mumuuhari.

wecan:
Mumu president

Reserve your hatred mumu wailer.

Then Stop Them Professionally or Give way for an Atiku in 2019



#Atiku2019

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Buhari saying something sensible. Nobody should hate him this moment. Using local talent is step in right direction.

Saying bombers are professional is no stretch. Of course they have been doing this for awhile. They should understand how to bombing operations. The targets aren't state secrets.

There is nothing this man will say now that will make people heed to his words. Himself, NCC and his senate crooks should reverse back the data price to what it is now.

And one of those professionals is Tom Polo's 90yrs old father, right?

wristbangle:
There is nothing this man will say that I can pay attention to. You, NCC and your senate crooks, review back our data price.

LOL.. you better recharge today or..

I have said this the first time the pipes were blown..

The precision, timing and success rate show that it is not a game played by amateurs..

It's unfortunate that the FG is jus knowing this.

Idiot! So nigerians cannot be professionals? You think everybody is dumb like your people?

Illiterate president! Nkkk!

Was it amateur that was bombing it before? Excuse upon excuses

lomprico:
Idiot! So nigerians cannot be professionals? You think everybody is dumb lije your people?

Illiterate president! Nkkk!

Make Una easy o.. Na this kain comment wey make data Wan increase so

dunkem21:


Make Una easy o.. Na this kain comment wey make data Wan increase so

Lol

Abeg people dey vex.

Knowing the specific pipeline to blow up requires someone who has the pipeline map... no matter how long u live in the Niger Delta u can't be this accurate. .. U can blow any pipeline.. . But to target specific pipelines u require the map

Guess what? Jonathan once gave this map to tompolo and ever since then the history of pipeline bombing changed from random bombing to targeted bombing. .. Should i say more?

So militancy has become a professional job.

In typical king James ascent i say speak lord for your zombie servant heareth....

Wait ooo, Let me get something straight... I thought d govt and d army threatened fire and brimstone to curtail the militancy in the region? Is dis d govt admitting the militants are more sophisticated than d army? Right from the time of OBJ d region had always suffered militant violence and successive govts have always found a way to appease the region and find a way around the confusion there. Who chest-beating help?

Chooooi,another wailing nd zombie-ing thread

mama qudus,abeg gimme koko N100,akara N70,one satchet of peakmilk.
Sits ontop bench***

And yet yourself & the DSS are preoccupied with breaking into judges houses that failed to do your bidding by 1am & fighting a Phantom anti corruption war.This still shows that you're the most daft as these saboteurs are much more smarter than you all.Just resign.You're a disgrace

otukpo:
So militancy has become a professional job.

This happens when a dull president is bereft of ideas on what a problem is let alone tackling it.You'll never see great leaders talking like this.

Going by this careless statement, BOKOHARAM are confirmed AMATEURS. No wonder they have renewed violence.

This is what we get when you leave a Dollard to run your nation.

mrvitalis:
Knowing the specific pipeline to blow up requires someone who has the pipeline map... no matter how long u live in the Niger Delta u can't be this accurate. .. U can blow any pipeline.. . But to target specific pipelines u require the map

Guess what? Jonathan once gave this map to tompolo and ever since then the history of pipeline bombing changed from random bombing to targeted bombing. .. Should i say more?

maps and as built surveys of pipelines are made available to communities..theres nothing special about it..so your assumptions that gej gave tompolo maps of installations is just crazy...

Let the FG come to the niger delta and get serious with a way forward to stop this bombing madness..

Rather this FG is finding a way to take the niger delta states by all means via politics..

mrvitalis:
Knowing the specific pipeline to blow up requires someone who has the pipeline map... no matter how long u live in the Niger Delta u can't be this accurate. .. U can blow any pipeline.. . But to target specific pipelines u require the map

Guess what? Jonathan once gave this map to tompolo and ever since then the history of pipeline bombing changed from random bombing to targeted bombing. .. Should i say more?

chidish talk.the bombing of pipeline in nigeria has been there even before Gej became president

mrvitalis:
Knowing the specific pipeline to blow up requires someone who has the pipeline map... no matter how long u live in the Niger Delta u can't be this accurate. .. U can blow any pipeline.. . But to target specific pipelines u require the map
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Guess what? Jonathan once gave this map to tompolo and ever since then the history of pipeline bombing changed from random bombing to targeted bombing. .. Should i say more[/s]?

These are unnecessary lies that don't have any bearings to reality