what we're trying to do with the amnesty, the very important thing of the government to help do is to rehabilitate the former militants by creating job opportunity, schools, hospitals, returning them to doing more developmental aspects and train them for mundane things like electricians, carpenters, welders, many of these areas require people like that to train. we have to train them first. you have to give them a use will trade they can deploy and use activities the government is instituting. and if we don't succeed in doing it, we need to keep it out of mischief for too long. it is a very important aspect of what the government is trying to do. can you clarify what changes are being made by the nnpc. >> nnpc is not a public cooperation, political paris actor. we want to incorporate nnpc so that it will be a company on its own right, independent of government. the shareholder will be beginning and it was without prejudice to eventually impact shares of this company to the private sector or to outsiders. and we want to make sure that nnpc operates as a commercial entity. the nnpc has

and we are very delighted that amnesty the president has put forward is working. and we there are major insurgent groups and the government is in the process of the reintegration into the nigerian society. and it is our hope that this arrangement will hold and develop eventually into a morris quest and situation. investments will continue, both from the national oil company and newcomers to continue to grow our oil and gas industry in a more peaceful atmosphere. the refineries again is a very disheartening story because up to now, for instance, we are talking out two or three refineries are at a function. why because the facilities that are supposed to deliver oil to these refineries have been very badly vandalized. and nnpc and the government are in the process of repairing these to enable us to deliveries delivered to the refineries. unfortunately, we are not managing our families as well as we should have done in the past. we are not come a for instance, maintaining and therefore we are in various stages of lap addition, which is to be correct date and. because

if we repair the same amnesty and peace and quiet in the niger delta i don't know maybe we don't need much more gas concern. >> you have an estimate of what could go next year if he were allowed to go that high in terms of production? >> if allowed -- let's say for the sake of argument you could go 500 easy. i'm not saying that we are going to do that. >> but you could. >> we could if we have to, yes. >> by the end of next year. >> your excellency, iran is making the argument that it is such a nuclear energy for energy properties given that nigeria is a situation is there any [inaudible] produce nuclear energy? >> the nuclear energy commission is in place and it is the hope that the appropriate time we will go nuclear energy wise and diversify as much as possible. with the wheel and gas, coal, we have solar, it is all in the cut and of course nuclear is not taken out. by the we talking about nuclear we've discovered so we are in a good position eventually to grow the nuclear power generation if we want to go that way. but the lead we want to exhaust, concentrate on getting the basic g

with the recent fortunate occurrence of the amnesty, we are hoping that we will be able to repair andput back some of the infrastructure which has been damaged during the insurgency. but this will take a little bit of time, but be that as it may, we are hoping that we should be able to resume both our oil and gas industry with the gaiter benefit of our people. oil for us is very important aspect of our national economy. we are dependent on oil for exports. 90% foreign exchange comes from oil. substantial part of the government revenue, very high percentage, more than 80%, 90% comes from oil. so oil is extremely important for our country. and we are trying through various programs and devices to diversify the bases of our national economy so we will eventually be less dependent on oil and gas ultimately. we are diversifying various ways toe on downstream extreme activities of refining and petro chemical and very much involved in the development of our gas resources through the supply through the west african gas pipeline. we have a major energy project already in production with two ne

the move came as the president faced the expiration on saturday of an amnesty protecting him and thousands of other politicians from a host of corruption and criminal charges. back to the bones, more rain, in west haven, connecticut, on our line for democrats. how is your shopping going so far? caller: the economy has affected shopping for the past four years. i start christmas shopping in june. host: in june? caller: when i see some but -- something for somebody and i have the money, i put the things away. i have an 18-year-old son who has a birthday the week before christmas. i try to get him some extra things and i give him cash per it i cannot by everybody that things i would normally want to buy. i keep a limit to $25 for everybody. that is why i start in june. host: are you done with your shopping? caller: i have maybe four or five things left to buy. host: are you better able to manage your shopping because you start so far ahead? caller: absolutely, people would not get as much if i did not do this. host: you don't feel like you're missing out on any of the sales that are coming up

follow up with that, the candidate that did drop out cited human rights abuses which were noted in the amnesty international report as well as human rights watch. so under that climate which is still ongoing in honduras right now, you will support the outcome of the elections under that climate? >> we cannot say until november 29 how this will come out, so we cannot say we're going to support something -- support an outcome which has not happened yet. however we will say that while we had some concerns about a number of decrees restricting civil liberties and some restrictions on the median in place, they have since then been rescinded. and we particularly welcome the news that opposition television channel 36 is now able to broadcast free of interference. so we did have concerns, but many of those concerns have been already addressed. dollars this is following up on this. >> and i wanted to say one last thing on this. >> go ahead. >> the oas and the union of south american nations has pulled out all their observers and condemned these elections because of a lot -- a lot of the things i mentio