From Sule Aliyu Bauchi
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara Saturday insinuated that the Kolmani Integrated Development Project in the North-east, a multi-billion naira oil exploration project located between Bauchi and Gombe states, had been abandoned
Rimawaglobalnews reports that in November 2022, former President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the Kolmani oil project at Burambu Village in Alkaleri LGA in Bauçhi state, stressing that the oil exploration in the area had already attracted over $3 billion foreign direct investment and will boost Nigeria’s earnings, with discovery of over 1 billion barrels of oil reserves and 500 billion Cubic Feet of gas.
At the event attended at the time by the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmad Tinubu; the then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; and the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari,
Others included Goverrnor Bala Abdukadir Muhammad (Bauchi), Goverrnor Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Goverrnor Simon Lalong (Plateau), among others.
Former Speaker Yakubu Dogara, urged President Bola Ahmad Tinubu who is in his second year of his first term to revisit oil drilling in Komani Oil Well in Bauchi/Gombe States.
Dogara made the appeal while speaking at the commissioning of the 2.5 kilometres township road project in Zaranda town of Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State executed by the current Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, Shehu Buba Umar Mujaddadin Bauçhi on Saturday.
The former Speaker also called for the construction of the Bagel dam in Dass which he believed would open up the area, create sources of employment for the population and increase revenue generation opportunities.
He explained that the two projects were vital to the growth and development of the state and the country at large.
”If done, the Bagel multipurpose Dam will generate electricity power for all the LGAs in Bauchi South Senatorial District and will lead to economic activities and development in the area,” he said
On the oil exploration, Dogara believed that if the Bauchà state joins the oil producing states of the country, there would be more revenue allocation through derivation while more revenue generation sources will be opened.
He said once these two projects are executed the president did not need to come to Bauchi to campaign come 2027 as the people will gladly vote for him.
Dogara stressed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), though in opposition in the State is not dead, stressing that those having such notion are only deceiving themselves.
“APC is still alive in Bauchi State, when the time comes, they will realize their mistakes, we will storm the State and take it over government.
“This is not yet time for politicking so, no much talking today,” he said.
Speaking earlier, Senator Buba Mujaddadin Bauçhi explained that the road project was a fulfilment of his electioneering campaigns promise ahead of the 2023 polls.
The Bauchà South Senator assured his people that more democratic dividends were underway for the electorate.
The federal lawmaker explained that he would soon embark on commissioning of some projects he executed and flag off others for the benefits of his people.
“You will recall that during my electioneering campaigns at the time of aspiring to become your senator in 2023, I pledged to relentlessly pursue meaningful and life changing projects,” Senator Buba said.
He reiterated his promise to provide basic amenities to the common good of his constituents.
Earlier. the Chairman of the APC in Bauchi State, Hon. Muhammad Tilde, described the road project constricted by the senator as a testament of his transformative leadership.
Tilde described the senator’s efforts as worthy of emulation and urged party members to remain united and loyal for the sustainability and progress of the It was meant to be funded by the Frontier Exploration Fund (FEF) with the allocation of 30 per cent of the profit from NNPC’s upstream oil and gas contracts.
