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$2.8b AKK: How Buhari is robbing South to develop North

By Okenyi Kenechi

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Day after tomorrow, President Muhammadu Buhari will flag off the AKK gas pipeline which will cost the country $2.8 billion [AKK stands for Ajeokuta, Kaduna, Kano].

Two aides to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad and Ajuri Ngelale tweeted about this on their various Twitter handles.

Ahmad, a personal assistant on New Media to Buhari, in two separate post on Jun 26, tweeted:

President Muhammadu Buhari will again, make a history as the $2.8 billion 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) natural gas pipeline, a single biggest gas pipeline project in Nigeria’s history will kick off next week, after months of holding talks in and out of the country.”

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On completion, the 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) natural gas pipeline will push Nigeria’s power generation capacity to more than 10,000MW as the three (AKK) new captive gas-fired plants, to be located in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano, are expected to deliver 3,600MW of power.”

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President Buhari will flag off the AKK gas pipeline which will cost $2.8 billion on Tuesday
President Buhari will flag off the AKK gas pipeline which will cost $2.8 billion on Tuesday

Senior Special Assistant To President Buhari on Public Affairs, Ajuri Ngelale tweeted:

President @MBuhariPivots To Gas; Breaking Ground On The Epochal $2.8bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline Tuesday:

“As the phase one of a Trans-Saharan Gas line to North Africa, AKK will power Nigeria with three new power plants (Abuja – 1,350MW; Kaduna – 900MW; Kano – 1,350MW)”

The sole aim of the gas pipeline is to transfer gas from Niger Delta and South East in a bid to industrialize the north and then export gas to North Africa.

But here is the issue, the entire South East and South South has no industrial gas pipeline that will aide industrialization but they are the ones that produce the gas.

Imo State has some of the biggest gas reserves in the country.

There is already another gas pipeline from Niger Delta and South East to the Ogun and Lagos area, providing steady electricity for companies there.

Few months ago, Governor Nyesom Wike dredged the Iwofe River to allow NLNG gas vessels to deck there.

Before that, NLNG gas vessels take gas from Bonny to Lagos where gas is hauled in trucks back to Port Harcourt and other parts of the region. That’s why cooking gas is cheaper in Lagos than in Port Harcourt.

You see, when I see young people from South East and South South insulting themselves over Biafra and Niger Delta Republic, I laugh and shake my head. You people are living in the dark.

The rest of the country are playing okoso with your futures.

Keep shouting APC and PDP while your region is roundly underdeveloped.

See more photos of Buhari’s AKK below:

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