Foreign Airlines, IOCs do not want an end to their exploitative activities against Nigerians, says Shehu Sani

Former Senator who represented Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Comrade Shehu Sani, has backed the revelation by the Vice President of Dangote Refinery, Devakumar Edwin that International Oil Companies are frustrating their effort to locally refine crude oil in Nigeria.

Edwin, while speaking to journalists during a one-day training, says the IOCs were “deliberately and willfully frustrating” the refinery’s efforts to buy local crude by hiking the cost above the market price, thereby forcing the refinery to import crude from countries as far as the United States, with its attendant high costs.

In a reaction to the revelation, Shehu Sani said foreign owned businesses are determined not to end their exploitative activities in Nigeria, hence the attempt to sabotage Dangote as they earlier attempted to do to Air Peace when it launched its Lagos to London flight.

He said: “As the Foreign Airlines wanted to destroy our Air Peace,Foreign oil firms appeared to be going after Dangote Refinery. They don’t want any form of local challenge that will break their monopoly and dominance and end their exploitative activities in this country.”