Niger Delta ex-militants in Ondo state have asked President Bola Tinubu to honour all agreements reached with them, especially with regards to oil pipelines surveillance.
At a news conference Thursday in Abuja, the ex-militants urged the president to decentralize the contracts and allow their colleagues in each of the nine Niger Delta states to secure the pipelines.
“Oil spillage affects our people who are largely fishermen. Our fishes are being killed. This is why we have on our own been fighting bunkerers. “The Niger Delta Coastline Vanguard is a group of ex-militants who, under the Presidential Amnesty Program submitted weapons and were granted pardoned in 2017 with a promise to be properly integrated into the federal Government Amnesty program with all accrued benefits. We established Forest Camp in Ilaje and Ese-Odo Local government Areas of Ondo State. The Ilaje covers the entire 120kms coastline and 80% of the water ways in the state.
“As a critical stakeholder in the security service of the deltaic belt of Nigeria, I am therefore using this medium to send a strong appeal to Mr. President, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu , President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to consider Niger Delta Coastline Vanguard in the ongoing decentralization plan of the pipeline surveillance contract to handle the entire corridor of the South West littoral States in the project for equity, fairness and peace in the region.
“It has more than 15 oil companies operating in both onshore and off-shore with daily output of over 80,000 barrels per day.
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