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A former Director of the Department of State Service , Mr Mike Ejiofor, yesterday posited that all major stakeholders , including oil companies, security personnel, among others, were involved in the massive theft of Nigeria’s oil.
“He told me that he’s not involved into bunkering and that all he was asking for was resource control and royalty for the communities where these oil companies are operating. Stressing that there is no way a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited would be vandalised without the national oil company knowing, Ejiofor explained that there was heavy connivance from top to bottom.
To buttress his point, Ejiofor cited an instance in about 2004, when he and a military officer, after getting reports about oil bunkerers and security officials planned to unravel their activities, but said that before action was taken, the information was leaked.