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Tam Brisibe
Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum (upstream) in the House of Representatives, TAM BRISIBE recently in an interview with olusola bello speaks on the burning issue of local content development in oil and gas industry. Excerpts
Workshop
The local content bill has been at the national assembly since 1999. The first bill that was brought to the national assembly was brought in about 2001, 2002, and we just felt the whole issue of the law on local content has been very slow. And the industry as a whole felt certain things are needed to encourage Nigerians to participate in the industry.
One of those things needed to be put in place is the law on local content. The committee looked at the whole issue and said, first all, let us get to hear from different actors in the industry concerning local content, the educators, the people that will train those that would work in the industry.
Contributors to the bill
We talked about different levels, the operators of the industry, oil companies, the big ones, the Nigerian companies, financial institutions, organisations that service the industry. All of these would give us a perspective, a greater understanding of what these whole issue of local content is all about. So that when we now move to the next stage of passing the bill it would be from the understanding of how the industry feels about local content. That is what prompted us to organise the workshop.
Guarantee
What I can tell you is that for some reasons, we now have a situation where the Senate Committee, as a matter of fact, the Senate committee is ahead of us on this matter. Right now, as we speak, they are actually doing the clause by clause consideration of the bill on local content and very soon, they would finish dealing with it.
House of rep
We in the House from what we have done... we intend to make sure that within the next three months, we would be through the whole process of getting the bill in the House. We would have gone through the first and second reading and then we would have public hearing on it and get it passed within that period. So that ultimately within this year of 2008, the national assembly would have done its work.
Presidency
You also heard from the Minister of Energy (Petroleum), Odein Ajumogobia that he is committed to ensuring that the issue would go beyond ordinary talks.
The national assembly is ready for it, the executive is ready for it, then you should know that all the necessary bodies that are required to ensure that the bill is passed into law. would ensure that it is passed into law.
NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has been part of the problems we have been having. The executives which a number of times are in better position to get some of things into law have actually been slow presenting executive bills to the national assembly. Within the executive, there is proposal for a bill that has been there and they have never brought it to the national assembly. We took the initiative; all of this initiative on local content were taken by the national assembly. Now what we are having are private member bills.
The local content bill has been at the national assembly since 1999. The first bill that was brought to the national assembly was brought in about 2001, 2002, and we just felt the whole issue of the law on local content has been very slow. And the industry as a whole felt certain things are needed to encourage Nigerians to participate in the industry.
One of those things needed to be put in place is the law on local content. The committee looked at the whole issue and said, first all, let us get to hear from different actors in the industry concerning local content, the educators, the people that will train those that would work in the industry.
Contributors to the bill
We talked about different levels, the operators of the industry, oil companies, the big ones, the Nigerian companies, financial institutions, organisations that service the industry. All of these would give us a perspective, a greater understanding of what these whole issue of local content is all about. So that when we now move to the next stage of passing the bill it would be from the understanding of how the industry feels about local content. That is what prompted us to organise the workshop.
Guarantee
What I can tell you is that for some reasons, we now have a situation where the Senate Committee, as a matter of fact, the Senate committee is ahead of us on this matter. Right now, as we speak, they are actually doing the clause by clause consideration of the bill on local content and very soon, they would finish dealing with it.
House of rep
We in the House from what we have done... we intend to make sure that within the next three months, we would be through the whole process of getting the bill in the House. We would have gone through the first and second reading and then we would have public hearing on it and get it passed within that period. So that ultimately within this year of 2008, the national assembly would have done its work.
Presidency
You also heard from the Minister of Energy (Petroleum), Odein Ajumogobia that he is committed to ensuring that the issue would go beyond ordinary talks.
The national assembly is ready for it, the executive is ready for it, then you should know that all the necessary bodies that are required to ensure that the bill is passed into law. would ensure that it is passed into law.
NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has been part of the problems we have been having. The executives which a number of times are in better position to get some of things into law have actually been slow presenting executive bills to the national assembly. Within the executive, there is proposal for a bill that has been there and they have never brought it to the national assembly. We took the initiative; all of this initiative on local content were taken by the national assembly. Now what we are having are private member bills.
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