Senate orders NIS to deport Samsung MD

For allegedly coming into the country without proper documentation, the Senate has ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to deport the Managing Director of SAMSUNG, Mr. Young Jo, back to South Korea.
The upper legislative chamber’s directive for deportation of SAMSUNG MD was announced yesterday by its Chairman on Ad Hoc Committee probing the $16.35 billion Egina Oil Field Project, Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) during an interactive session with major and sub contractors of the project.
Adeola said the resolution for deportation of the SAMSUNG MD was adopted by the Senate, on Thursday, last week, in line with recommendation to that effect by the ad-hoc committee in its interim report.
The senator, who made the announcement to the hearing of the embattled South Korean and other operators of the Egina oil field project, revealed that illegality of Mr. Young Ho Jo residency in Nigeria came to the fore during scrutiny of his papers.
He said: “Mr. Young Ho Jo who has been working for the past two months in Nigeria as the managing director of Samsung without fulfilling legal requirements for such told us that he couldn’t complete his documentation as a result of alleged brake down of machines of the Nigeria Content Development Monitoring Board (NCMDB).
“But the NCMBD wrote to us that their machine had never broken down in the period claimed showing that the man has contravened the Local Content law.
“Going by recommendations made by this committee to the Senate and resolution adopted, MD SAMSUNG is no longer recognised on account of improper documentation as shown by papers he presented.
“To the Senate and this committee, SAMSUNG MD is an illegal immigrant who must be deported by the Nigerian Immigration Service, to which a letter to that effect has been forwarded to the Ministry of Interior.
He can, however, come back to the country through proper documentation thereafter.” The committee chairman further revealed that Young Ho Jo, during his illegal residency in Nigeria as SAMSUNG MD, also violated the Local Content Act by spending $1.6bn out of the $3.5 billion contract, SAMSUNG got from $16.35 billion Egina Oil Field Project in Goje, South Korea.
However, the managing director of Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, Mr.
Nicolas Terraz, stated that as the major operator of the project, it “will continue to assist the committee in its investigations, adding that its goal “is to deliver the project expected produce 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day, while its FPSO has a holding capacity of two million barrels.” The representative of NNPC/ NAPIMS, Engr.
Gbolahan Okesanya, said it “will ensure that maximum cooperation is given to the audit team of the Senate when it commence work adding that the goal of the audit team tallies with that of NNPC/NAPIMS in its regulation of the oil industry.

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