Minister of State for Petroleum Resource, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu yesterday said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has not spent a dime on the country’s four refineries, an achievement not many have paid attention to. Kachikwu said this in Abuja during a presentation of three years key achievements of the ministry and award to its staff. Daily Trust estimates that more than N264 billion was spent on turn around maintenance of the refineries by successive governments before the present administration but the plants have failed to deliver. The minister said all the efforts made so far to fix the refineries have been to find private investors to collaborate with government to put these refineries in order and then save government money. “What is important is that for the first time, the president had been able to say that he would repair the refineries without government money. Nobody had been able […]