An oil industry expert in
Rivers State, Jasper Jumbo, has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to use the presidential fiat and peg the value of naira to a dollar.
He has also urged the President to do more to help the states to pay salaries of their workers, pointing out that some states in the country are owing workers salaries up to nine months, which he said is unacceptable.
Jumbo who was speaking while interacting with newsmen on his arrival from Abuja at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa explained that there was so much hunger in the land.
He also urged the President to use the money he has recouped from people as looted funds and evoke the power of the president and tackle the economic recession, adding that the earlier this is done, the better it will be for everybody.
On the request made by the President to the National Assembly for special power to tackle the economic challenges, the elder statesmen posited that such request was not necessary for a time as this, when serious and immediate action was required.
Jumbo, one of the founding fathers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) explained that President Buhari was elected as the executive president, and that such request was confusing.
“He doesn’t need anybody’s permission to do the needful as at now. There is so much hunger in the land, and something must be done fast to save the situation”, the elder statesman said.
On the amnesty granted by the Rivers State government to cultists and other armed gang youth, he said that such programme was in order, because the insecurity in the area was not acceptable.
He also frowned at the attitude of multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta, accusing them of not taking their responsibilities and development and the security of the host communities very seriously.

Corlins Walter