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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Entry | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Should the National Electricity Power Authority be privatized? Yes No Indifferent View results Senate Summons Total over Kaduna Refinery TAM From Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja, 12.08.2004 The Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) yesterday told the management of Total Nigeria Plc. to ensure the appearance, before th committee, of every staff whose signature appeared in the agreement and performance of the turn around maintenance the company carried out at the Kaduna Refinery between 1998-2003. But the Managing Director of Total Nigeria Plc., Mr Christian Closiares, assured the committee that "as soon as we have your invitation, we would have no problem in explaining what we have done in Kaduna". Also yesterday, the Shell Petroleum Development Corpo-ration (SPDC) appeared before the committee over the petition brought against it by an Ogoni Family, the GBII family of GBENE-UE community of Ogoniland demanding the sum of $100m over alleged "spill of 1993 that has rendered them useless in terms of source of livelihood."  The Committee chairman, Senator Emma Azu Agboti, in handing down the order for the appearance of the Total's staff noted that "it's important that those who were directly or remotely connected to the turn around maintenance would come around and talk to Nigerians about what they know even if they are in Japan." According to him, "it is because of the centrality of the refineries in the life of the people that issues of proper or non-functioning of these refineries has assumed unprecedented controversy. Several questions are today begging for answers. The people have listened to tales of billions of dollars being sunk into the refineries by way of Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) but with little or nothing to show by way of efficient service delivery." "We in the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) are therefore committed to a public hearing that would enable the people know what actually happened in this vital sector," Agboti added. The Vice-chairman of the Senate Committee, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, as well as Senators John Danboyi, Ali Ibrahim, Iya Abubakar, as well as Henry Ehinlanwo however took their turns to ask questions the wanted Total Nigeria Plc to provide answers while appearing before the committee next January. Responding, Closiares explained that the commitment of Total Nigeria Plc at the Kaduna Refining Petrochemical Company (KRPC), which was between April 1998 and August 2003, was in relation to two distinct projects namely the 6th Kaduna Refinery Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) and rehabilitation of specified operating units within the refinery.       REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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