Kolmani Oil Exploration Needs Undisrupted Peace – Gombe Gov

The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Yahaya, has urged residents to maintain peace in the Kolmani fields to enable unhindered exploration.

Yahaya made this disclosure on Wednesday, at the palace of Mai Kaltungo, Engr. Saleh Mohammed, when his campaign train arrived in Kaltungo.

Already, there have been verbal disagreements in the media over the actual owners of Kolmani one, two, three, four, and five.

However, based on the remarks of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), during the inauguration, the discovery would yield the country over $3 billion in investment.

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According to Yahaya, exploration would not only be disrupted but investors in other sectors of the economy of the State may leave the state the relative peace becomes threatened.

The Governor expressed worry and therefore cautioned that disputes between communities in the State could also arise if measures are not taken to keep the communities peaceful.

Yahaya noted with emphasis the critical roles of the traditional institutions, stressing that they are stakeholders in ensuring peaceful co-existence among the people.

He said, “the desired economic benefit from the oil will only be a curse to communities and State in general if people continue to fight each other because of where the oil or exploration activities are sited.”