Pipeline explosion: IYC asks Buhari to probe oil coys
The President, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, Mr. Udengs
Eradiri, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to
investigate oil companies in the Niger Delta for alleged
complicity in bursting of pipelines.
Eradiri, who condemned the incessant explosion of pipelines,
said such development had nothing to do with agitations in
the region.
Eradiri spoke in Yenagoa during the week while receiving
thousands of books donated by the Bayelsa State Chapter of
the Association of Nigeria Authors to the Oronto Douglas
Library and ICT Centre operated by the IYC.
He said, “The Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government
should investigate the oil companies and their contractors in
the recent bombing attacks on oil installations.
“The bombings have nothing to do with the agitation in the
Niger Delta. The oil companies know what is happening. It is
part of the politics they sometimes play to make extra money.”
So, President Muhammadu Buhari should investigate the oil
companies as well as the contractors that they are using to
do all these work.
“There was an issue by an oil company who took a job from
a contractor and gave it to another contractor, and the
aggrieved contractors express themselves using the pipelines
to the detriment of the country, to the detriment of the
environment and that of the Ijaw people.
” So, the Federal Government must investigate these oil
companies. I have said it before that if there is a rupture on
the pipeline, some oil companies pay N7. 5m per rupture, no
matter how little it is. So, if there are 10, it will be N75m. If
you have such a contracting process in a company, the
pipeline will never work well because the contractors want a
swelled bank accounts.
“So, sometimes you see over 100 ruptures, calculate that by
N7.5m. Most of those companies they are using are the same
director or cronies of the directors in those companies. So,
they should stop accusing Niger Delta people of destroying
pipelines because of agitation.”
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