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NNPCL GCEO Kyari Hinges Wealth Creation on Energy Security

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The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr. Mele Kyari, says no public wealth creation endeavour can achieve any meaningful success without energy security.

The GCEO stated this in a presentation at the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) Public Wealth Management Conference, which was held in Abuja on Tuesday.

He noted that all other wealth-creating activities, such as agriculture, rely heavily on one form of energy or the other to thrive.

“If you don’t have energy, you don’t have agriculture. You can do all the agriculture, but you can’t take it to the market; you may not be able to preserve it; you can’t even export it.

“So, all those indices are clearly connected to the ability to create energy,” Kyari said in a statement by Mr Olufemi Soneye, the company’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer.

He disclosed that Nigeria has a huge energy deficit, with about 70% of the population lacking access to clean cooking fuel and over 50% lacking access to electricity.

He listed some of the impediments to the achievement of energy security in Nigeria, including a lack of investment in the energy sector due to uncertainty in the business environment and multiple taxes.

According to him, in the last 10 years, less than 3% of the total investment flow into Africa came into Nigeria.

He, however, assured that NNPC Ltd. was working hard to lay the foundation for sustainable wealth creation by filling the energy deficit gap.

Kyari also stressed that the company’s growth trajectory from a loss position of N803bn in 2018 to N2.5trn in 2022 was a testimony to the abundant potential of NNPC Ltd. to lead the process of wealth creation in the country.

The NNPCL boss said that despite the challenges, NNPC Ltd. is still the highest tax-paying corporate entity in Nigeria.

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