According to reports across Rivers, Kaduna, and Delta States revealed that the massive investment has failed to bring the refineries back to life, raising questions about accountability and deepening concerns over Nigeria’s chronic fuel dependency.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has repeatedly pledged to revamp the country’s aging refineries. The most recent round of funding, a total of $3 billion was intended to restore full operations to the three major plants. However, these efforts have yielded little more than abandoned equipment, rusting infrastructure, and idle personnel.

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Sources at the refineries confirmed that staff now come and go as they please, with no actual work to perform. “There’s nothing happening here. People just clock in and out,” a worker in Warri affirmed.

Source: Punch