The Nation Newspaper Stakeholders seek continuity in pipeline surveillance contract
Since the surveillance contract for the protection of and prevention of oil theft was awarded to TSSNL, the issues of pipeline vandalism, crude adulteration, racketeering and profiteering have become things of the past. There has been relative peace and calm as well as a reduction in the number of oil barrels that the country loses to oil thieves. For continuity, stakeholders urge theThe Niger Delta region has been in the news for long. Most times for the wrong reasons.
To provide a solution to the intractable problem, the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo established the Niger Delta Development Commission in 2000. The creation of the Commission was also aimed at ending the violence and spur socio-economic development in the area. Added to the reason for the establishment of the PAP by Yar’Adua was the growing need to integrate the people whose wealth, as it were, is the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy into the mainstream of the country’s political developments and possibly end agitation engendered by years of alleged marginalisation.
The ripple effect of the oil theft grew to its crescendo when successive administrations looked the other way; which made security agents flourish in the trade. The trend continued until 2016 when a group, the Niger Delta Avengers struck, taking the country by storm. They wreaked havoc on the country’s commonwealth; targeting the same oil facilities that were under the siege of criminal elements.
Since TSSNL came into the picture, it has proven to be efficient in its operational area, which is the Western axis of the Nigerian Coastal region. Oil thieves are not happy because TSSNL is thwarting their chances of success in their nefarious activities in the oil industry. The enemies of the state have recruited many faceless groups to fight Kyari, who, in their warped judgment, must be made a scapegoat and possibly sacrificed for their inordinate ambition. They are sponsored groups that bear a series of names, with varying demands from the Federal Government.
Integrity and credibility are crucial in any national agenda. The time for soul searching is now. Also now is the time for value rebirth and character reformation. We have gone past the era when demands are made on the government with morbid threats.
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