{"id":9502,"date":"2016-06-11T04:55:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2016-06-11T04:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:55:44","slug":"how-a-militant-called-me-saying-he-was-going-to-bomb-a-pipeline-kachikwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9502","title":{"rendered":"How a militant called me saying he was going to bomb a pipeline – Kachikwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu recounted how he was threatened by a militant.The minister who was part of the attendees of the town hall meeting held in Kaduna spoke about how the attacks on oil installations were draining the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

He called for calm as he assured everyone that the Federal government was on top of issues.<\/p>\n

\"IKACHUKWU\"<\/a>According to News Agency TheCableng, Dr. Kachikwu said\u00a0\u201cLast week, my phone number was published in Sahara Reporters and then I began to get millions of phone calls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the first phone calls I took not knowing who was calling me was from a militant somewhere and when I picked up the phone, he said \u2018Are you the minister of petroleum\u2019, I said yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said I dey go blow pipeline tomorrow, and I said why would you do that my brother if you love Nigerians? He said \u2018are you sure you are the minister\u2019, I said yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he said for being so humble, I will drop the plan. That\u2019s the kind of environment under which we operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say that Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be discouraged by the current hardships as we had a leadership that was capable of weathering the storm and turning things around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality of our situation is that wherever I turn when I was appointed, I had problems. If I turn to the refineries when I joined in October, they were not working. If I turned to the pipelines, they were non-existent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I wasn\u2019t discouraged, because if I had problems, what will I say of a man who at his age took over the mantle of this country? His Excellency, the president so that gave me a lot of encouragement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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