The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, Chief Tony Attah, said over 800 million people across Africa do not have access to cleaner energy, while in Nigeria, more than 100,000 people die every year from inhaling smoke from unclean energy.

Attah, who led the management team of the company on a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Ogbe, said that the company’s core vision is to ensure energy security and industrialisation to Nigeria and achieve cleaner energy for the country.

He said the company is in the oil and gas sector to tackle the problems and give Nigeria cleaner energy sources.

Renaissance Africa Energy, which recently acquired the total shares and assets of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria, also promised to represent Nigerian Content across Africa in the oil and gas sector.

“But our vision is to be the African leader in energy, but most importantly to enable energy security, and when we speak about energy security, we speak from two dimensions, one is underpinned by the most unfortunate data that you have heard of even across Africa.”

Responding, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Ogbe, urged them to work as a team to achieve the production target set by President Bola Tinubu of 2.5 million barrels per day of crude oil.

He said: “As a local content, we look forward to seeing you people showing good example, be transparent in your dealings, your ways of doing things should show Nigerians that we can do it, what you expect from us is that NCDMB should provide enabling environment for all the IOCs and you are one of the IOCs, so as a Nigerian company, we have to provide you double enabling environment.

“You have no choice but to succeed, and it’s our own part of responsibility to see that you succeed. You are going to create a lot of economic empowerment for families, you are going to employ a lot of Nigerians, and you are going to grow.”