Senate Committee on Local Content Makes Oversight Visit to NCDMB

...Pledges Readiness to Partner Key Actors on Implementation of NOGICD Act



By-Alambo Datonye


Yenagoa, Bayelsa State -

The Senate Committee on Local Content says it will continue to create the enabling environment to increase Nigerian participation in the nation’s oil and gas industry.

Chairman of the Committee, Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas gave the assurance at the Content Tower in Yenagoa during an oversight visit to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board.

While in Bayelsa State, members of the Committee of the tenth Senate visited some project sites of the NCDMB.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Content said the first of the series of oversight visits was to verify NCDMB’s compliance and implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development. NOGICD Act and assess the level of participation of Nigerians in the country’s hydrocarbon industry.

Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas stressed that the benefits of Nigerian Content were enormous as it would lead to creation of jobs for citizens, development of critical assets and skills, growth of local businesses, improve balance of payments and reduce dependence on foreign goods and services.

He reiterated the commitment of President Bola Tinubu’s Administration in growing local capacity, creating massive employment for teeming graduates and artisans and reduction of the outsourcing of Nigerian jobs to expatriates.

 To achieve these objectives, he noted that synergy between the Senate Committee and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board was essential to ensure the effective implementation of the Act.

Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ede Dafinone expressed satisfaction over some of the sites inspected during the oversight visit to the NCDMB.

Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Engineer Felix Omatsola-Ogbe while welcoming the Senate Committee, reiterated the Board’s readiness to actualize Nigerian Content in the nation’s oil and gas sector, especially on the Back to Creek Programme which aims to catch them young.

Members of the Senate Committee on Local Content during their visit assessed the level of work at the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industrial Park site at Emeyal One Community in Ogbia Local Government Area and were part of a session that featured a presentation by the Director of Capacity Building at the NCDMB. Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu on the Board’s activities.


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