Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited, Mele Kyari says construction work on the Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano, AKK Natural Gas Pipeline which has gulped $1 billion will be completed on schedule.
Kyari who gave the assurance during a visit to one of the AKK Gas Pipelines construction sites in Ahoko Kogi on Monday also said that funding would not be an issue.
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Most Nigerians have always expressed fears about the possibly of getting the AKK Natural Gas Pipeline project completed. They hing such fears on financial constraints arising from the pull out of some major financial partners.
This visit by the Kyari to one of the over 30 sites of AKK pipeline project however shows that the project is ongoing and it is at 70% completion.
Kyari told journalists that the 614-kilometre Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project is one of the major transmission infrastructure critical to national development in the country.
The project when completed has the capacity to transport Two Billion Standard Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Per Day to three proposed Independent Power Plants in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, and other gas-based industries as well as other identified and proposed commercial off-takers along the entire pipeline route.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
