Dino Melaye To Buhari: Don’t Embalm A Dead Refinery With Over N700bn

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Friday, March 19th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has enjoined President Buhari to shelve plans to spend $1.5bn on renovating the Port Harcourt refinery.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday had approved $1.5 billion for the repair of the Port Harcourt refinery.

Reacting, Melaye stated that this was a move to “appropriate our common matrimony to a few individuals” and he called for a reversal of the decision.

“You want to use over N700 billion to renovate a dead refinery. Port Harcourt refinery is dead. Not only moribund, but dead,” Melaye said.

“This money is going to be spent on embalmment of a dead refinery. When would this stealing stop in this country? When will this inconsiderate corruption stop in this country?”

The former senator who claimed to be a private investigator and the leader of an anti-corruption network, enjoined President Buhari to reverse FEC’s decision.

“As anti-corruption network, as patriotic citizens of this country, we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately reverse this satanic, wicked, nefarious decision.

“Those who want to eat and benefit from this stealing, we are waiting, we are watching. We have no other country to call our own, we would not keep quiet in the midst of this corruption.”