Mine Over Matter

IT is public knowledge that the positions of director-general of oil and gas and that of minerals and coal have always been tightly contested. The two offices under the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry have been fought over by not just competing political forces, but also by rent-seekers. For years, through various methods, politicians, political parties, plunderers of natural resources or whomever have vested interests in them, will fight hard to gain control over those two positions.

May 12, 2015