ladyF:
terrible news.

But the decision to site it in badagry was after detailed feasibility study and EIA, all I see is selfish youths sent by some individuals looking after their own pockets...

ladyF:
terrible news.

But the decision to site it in badagry was after detailed feasibility study and EIA, all I see is selfish youths sent by some individuals looking after their own pockets...

oduastates:
Omolaubis will put their money where ever they like.

OboloMAN:
Fear is said to have gripped management of
multinational gas corporation, Nigeria Liquefied
Natural Gas Company, NLNG and her investors
over a strongly worded protest letter presented by
Rivers state youths and stakeholders over
proposed location of its Dry dock.

The letter which content made startling revelations previously unheard of lay overwhelming credence to the fact that NLNG in spite of its sustained denial was actually sponsor of the proposed drydock project in Badagry.

In a nine page letter articulately written and
copied to government and strategic agencies in
the country by Youth leaders representing various
youth groups in Rivers state, stakeholders and
other youths of Niger delta under the aegis of
Joint Niger Delta Youth Movement who were led
by Niger delta activist, Ann Kio Briggs they were
resolute over their demand..

Others who registered their presence in the civil
protest to NLNG complex in Port Harcourt
include; Chairman, National Youth Council of
Nigeria, NYCN, Rivers state chapter, Amb. Sukubo
Sara-Igbe Sukubo, National Secretary General of
Ijaw Youth Council and Leader of Rivers Ijaw
Youths, Engr Emmanuel Bristol Alagbariya, Leader
Bonny Youth Federation, Barr. Simeon Wilcox
among others to express serious disappointment
and regret in the non inclusion of host
communities who are critical stakeholders of
NLNG projects, condemning in the process
perceived high level deceit, fabrications and
deliberate intention to foist crisis in the region.

Part of the demands during the protest is to have
the Dry dock located in any of the Niger delta
states for the purpose of creating job
opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths,
they also demanded that NLNG should organize a
road show in the Niger delta and assure the
investors that they will patronize the investors
and make available all their vessels to the dry
dock facility to be built in the Niger delta. The
letter submitted amidst tight security by NLNG
neither deterred the youths who matched on
within the NLNG premises to deliver the strongly
worded letter received by one of NLNG’s key
management officers.

Some contentious issues were raised in the letter
which reads in parts: “It is not in dispute that you
NLNG conceived the idea and sponsored the
disputed Dry dock feasibility studies, received,
accepted, gave approval to the report and indeed
mobilized banks and investors and also organized
a road show to actualize and give effect to your
desired decision to site the dry dock in Lagos as
pre determined”.

“It is necessary here to note that before the
feasibility study and road show of Decenber 9th
2014, organized by you there were no foreign or
local investors (company or consortium) for the
Dry dock, but to our chagrin NLNG had already
named the project, Badagry Ship Repair and
Marine Engineering, BSME”.

To further give credence to NLNG’s pre
determined and lopsided feasibility study, the
statement gave references to various reports
including one made available by news giant
Reuters on Friday June 19th 2015 which was also
hoisted on NLNG website captioned ‘NLNG EYES
$1.5 BILLION NAIRA DEBUT SHIPYARD IN
NIGERIA’. The first paragraph aptly captured that
‘Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG)
is sponsoring the construction of the first major
ship yard in Africa’s biggest economy at the cost
of $1.5 billion, in its attempt to turn the country
into a hub for maritime operations on the
continent”. Reuters went further to quote NLNG
spokesman, Tony Okonedo corroborating
statements that indicate that they are actually
sponsoring the dry dock project.


The letter in part countered strongly and referred
to as unsubstantiated,. NLNG spokesman’s claim
that technical grounds like, Natural water depth;
Proximity to an international airport and Proximity
to an active offshore and onshore West Africa oil
and gas hub were practicable parameters used to
decide on siting the Dry dock in Badagry
Countering the claims the Joint Niger Delta Youth
Movement stated in its letter that it is yet to
come to terms on why Badagry which natural
water depth of 11-12 meters was chosen ahead
of Bonny island with natural water depth of 14.30
meters and the Onne/Ikpokiri which has about
15.2 meters of natural water depth.
On proximity to airport, it states that the distance
between Lagos International airport and Badagry
is about 68 kilometers while from Port Harcourt
international airport to Onne port is about 40
kilometers, even as Bonny Island has the
advantage of a mini air strip.

Dissecting the issue of proximity to an active
offshore and onshore West Africa oil and gas hub,
it states “Niger delta is the most active offshore
and onshore oil and gas hub in Nigeria and
indeed in the whole of West Africa. Hear this: It is
a global established known and accepted
empirical fact that only the management of NLNG
Bonny and its hired agents the Royal Haskoning
DHV are disputing this very obvious fact”.
The protest organized in the most civil and
intellectual manner attracted the admiration of
security operatives. There was staked consensus
among, Ann Kio Briggs, Sukubo Sara Igbe, Bristol
Alagbariya and Wilcox and others that NLNG’s
hidden but now open agenda can never be
allowed to see the light of the day, they assert
that the decision will if allowed to fly will be
detrimental not just to the present generation of
youths in the Niger delta, but to those yet unborn.

While they wait on NLNG to reply the letter they
are strongly maintaining a capital NO stance to
siting the Drydock in Badagry.

Nigeria LNG Limited has denied its involvement in the proposed USD 1.5 billion Badagry Dry Dock Project after several media reports identified the company as the owner of the project.
Nigeria LNG said that the company is not the owner and is not investing in the building of any dry dock anywhere in the world, as it has a singular business focus, namely processing and exporting LNG.

The owner of the proposed dry dock in Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria, is a consortium of other Nigerian companies under the name of Badagry Ship Repair and Maritime Engineering Company (BSMEC), according to Nigeria LNG.

"NLNG's only interest was and still remains, encouraging investors to consider building dry docks in the country to save the nation's foreign exchange and save local ship owners, like ourselves, the trouble of having to go overseas for dry dock services,'' the company said in a statement.

''Nigeria LNG would thus be pleased to see more dry dock projects emerge in different parts of the country, but will not be investing in any. It is thus fair to add that not being an investor in dry dock, NLNG cannot dictate to investors where to site their projects.''


Badagry Dry Dock will be the first facility of this kind able to receive large vessels in the region of West Africa. Currently, owners of large vessels in the region have to dry dock their vessels in Europe, Asia and North America.

shota:


Yoruba people still want to cheat us the way they cheated our forefathers when they stole our Royal Niger company and changed it to UAC that developed Lagos and employed only them.. Now they want to use LNG to build another company in Lagos to develop Lagos while Rivers people suffer and die of the LNG waste products and remain jobless. And after they ll they claim Lagos to be their own.

EMANY01:


Yes they will as is their right but the government of Nigeria is warned that if one Naira (i should say Dollar) of Nigeria's money is invested by the NLNG (that earns NEARLY ALL[80%] of its revenue from the South South) in that project in Badagry,there will be hell to pay simple.