Amosun excoriates NNPC over unremitting vandalism of pipelines

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has credited the perpetual vandalism of petroleum pipelines by oil criminals the nation over mostly to carelessness from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

He said this on Wednesday when he went to the scene of a vandalized petroleum pipeline along Iperu-Ogere Road in the Ikenne Local Government Area of the state.

Some suspected vandals had cracked another pipeline in the same region on Tuesday.

The senator said the issue of  vandalism was an impression of the condition of the country.

He said, "Vandalism is an every day event which demonstrates the way we are as a country. Despite everything I keep up that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is a piece of the issue being the organization alloted to guarantee that things like this don't happen.

"This is either neglect of obligation or carelessness from the office of government.



"I don't know how it would be troublesome for us as a country to keep the repeat of this terrible frequency."

Amosun said in 2012 after such episode at Arepo, President Goodluck Jonathan had welcomed him to his office in Abuja, where he issued him a few answers for pipeline vandalism.

Amosun, who was noticeably irate at the titanic loss of income to vandals, said nothing was done in regards to it.

While he proposed that governors of different states, where petroleum pipelines go through, ought to be included in checkmating vandals, he claimed that there was complicity of persuasive individuals in pipeline vandalism.

Amosun, who denounced the recompense of pipeline assurance contract to a gathering by the Federal Government, noticed that the organization of advanced innovation and applicable security offices ought to be considered for the country's multi-billion naira venture.

The state's Commander, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Akinwande Aboluwoye, encouraged villagers in the region, where petroleum pipelines were situated, to offer data to security specialists on the most proficient method to handle vandalism.