A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, has been appointed by the Federal Government as the Chairman of a 22-member committee on National Refineries Special Task Force.
Part of the task of the task force is to ensure that the country’s refineries produce at optimum capacity.
The task force is also to work out modalities that will ensure that refineries can be set up based on the Public Private Partnership module.
In a statement from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, headed by Minister Dizeani Alison-Madueke, the constitution of a 22-member task force is to ensure self-sufficiency of petroleum products in Nigeria within a strong framework in the shortest possible time.
The alternate chairman of the committee is the former Managing Director of the old Unipetrol, Mallam Yusuf Alli.
Alli is to oversee the ongoing rehabilitation and Turnaround Maintenance of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries, as well as the building of Greenfield refineries.