Vanguard (Lagos)
19 August 2008
NIGER Delta leaders and groups, Sunday, rejected an apparent plan of the Federal Government to tinker with the National Gas Masterplan to construct pipelines to channel gas, produced in the Niger Delta states of Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers to Lagos State, which some people consider as not posing any form of danger from militants, warning that it will increase crisis in the Niger Delta.
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I dont know what our constitution says on the relationship of the Federal govt.and the state govt.Otherwise it should have been necessary to table the issue of piping gas from Niger Delta state to Lagos State in the Delta state assembly to get their support before implementation.It would have been easier to locate the gas plant at Benin instead of Lagos which is very conggested for the localization of gas industry.