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The Senate on Thursday decried the dominance of foreign operators in the employment of personnel in the nation’s diving sector.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, Teslim Folarin, made the remark at an investigative hearing on a motion to ensure strict compliance with statutory regulations and provisions of the Nigerian Diving Sector.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting, which was at the instance of the committee, was designed to investigate claims of contravention of relevant statutory provisions in the area of diving in the oil and gas sector.
Mr Folarin said the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, provided that 70 per cent of divers in offshore energy projects must be Nigerians.