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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