Pipeline security: Soldiers to replace ex-militants

 
The men of the Nigerian military are to take over the security of
the nation’s oil pipelines.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Rabe Abubakar,
who said in a statement on Tuesday, added that the Group
Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, met with the Chief of
Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on how to work out
modalities to get the military to protect the strategic national
assets.
He quoted the NNPC’s GMD as having said that he visited the
CDS as a follow up to a proposal the corporation presented to
President Muhammadu Buhari, to have the Army Corps of
Engineering to maintain and secure the nation’s pipelines.
Abubakar also quoted the NNPC’s GMD as having said that the
corporation was taking a holistic step to ensure that the best
hands were used to protect the pipelines.
He said that the NNPC was also engaging the services of the
Navy and the Air Force in collaborative efforts to secure the
nation’s pipelines and to prevent the theft of the country’s oil.
Abubakar said that Kachikwu solicited for the support of the CDS
in the fight against crude oil theft, pipeline vandalism and other
maritime crime.
He was said to have told the CDS that the NLC was making
moves to procure more boats for the Navy for patrol operations
and trackers for the monitoring of vessels coming into the
country.
Kachikwu was also quoted as saying that the NNPC had also
reached out to the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq
Abubakar, on the issue.
“We are trying to equip the Navy a lot more with boats for
patrols; we are trying to get trackers and central system to be
able to monitor every vessel that comes in and out of the
country.
“We have equally spoken with the Chief of Air Staff on other
effective ways of collaboration,” he was quoted as having said.
The NNPC’s GMD was said to have told the CDS that the country
was losing 250,000 barrels of crude oil per day which was one-
fifth of the total production in the country.
Kachikwu, who called for more efforts to address the incident of
crude of theft, said that the ugly trend had reduced since he
became the GMD of the NNPC.
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