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Olawale Olaopa, Ibikunle Ogundari, Mike Awoleye, and Willie Siyanbola prices was thus squandered on imported petrol. Today, the country's own refineries have gone to seed, thanks to the corrupt contractors who were charged with their repair. A recent report estimated that at least US$400 million has been pumped into rehabilitating the refineries in the last six years. That money vanished with no trace of enhanced capacity. Government efforts to privatize the facilities out of trouble are progressing slowly. In order to encourage more international interest, President Obasanjo considers it essential to raise fuel retail prices to a commercially attractive level, at which point the market will take over the supply problem. Supporters argued that this policy is already beginning to pay off, with a consortium of domestic banks recently announcing plans to build a new 12,000-barrel-per-day facility in Niger-Delta Cross River state. In summary, government involvement in the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry, over the past quarter of a century have led to predictable failures (Braide, 1997). These include: • low capacity utilization of Nigeria’s state-owned refineries and petrochemicals plants in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Warri; • sorry state of disrepair, neglect, and repeated vandalisation of the state-ran petroleum product pipelines and oil movement infrastructure nationwide, the collateral damage of 239
Chapter IX: The Politics and Policies of Oil Deregulation in Nigeria: Implications and Policy Suggestions institutionalised corruption, with the frightening emergence of a local nouveau riche oil mafia that controls, and coordinates crude oil, and refined petroleum products pipeline sabotage, and theft ("illegal bunkering") nationwide; • insatiably corrupt military Task Force operatives that assist diversions of both crude oil and petroleum products, and largescale cross-border smuggling of petroleum products. All these are the root causes of the protracted and seemingly intractable severe fuel crises that have bedeviled the country relentlessly for close to a decade now. As expected, public opinion about deregulation in Nigeria covers a wide spectrum, and cuts across all sides of the argument. Some Nigerians hold the view that deregulation cannot be complete, whether in the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry, or indeed, in any other sector of the national economy (Aret, 2001). However, for some, deregulation is seen as desirable in freeing government of its concurrent control, and involvement in the businesses of refining, importation, and distribution of refined petroleum products in the Nigerian market. In their opinion, the deregulation of the petroleum industry in Nigeria should be 240
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