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.
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