Politics
Buhari Assents Amended Deep Offshore Act
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Amended Deep Offshore Act into law.
The President signed the Amended Act on Monday in London where is on a private visit.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
The statement reads “Today is an important day for all Nigerians – but particularly the young generation.
“Today I signed into law the amended Deep Offshore Act. Nigeria will now receive its fair, rightful and equitable share of income from our own natural resources for the first time since 2003. Buhari said.
“In that year oil prices began a steep increase to double – and at times – triple over the following decade.
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“All this time Nigeria has failed to secure its equitable share of the proceeds of oil production, for all attempts to amend the law on the distribution of income have failed. That is, until today.
“Rapid reductions in the cost of exploration, extraction and maintenance of oil fields had occurred over these 25 years, at the same time as sales prices have risen.
“A combination of complicity by Nigerian politicians and feet-dragging by oil companies has, for more than a quarter-century, conspired to keep taxes to the barest minimum above $20 per barrel – even as now the price is some three times the value. Buhari stated
“Today this changes. For the first time under our amended law, 200 million Nigerians will start to receive a fair return on the surfeit of resources of our lands. Increased income will allow for new hospitals, schools, infrastructure and jobs.
“Today marks a new and beneficial relationship with our oil company partners: one that benefits all – starting with the Nigerian people.”
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