NIGERIA’S systemic dysfunction and poor governance practices are once more on display with the exposure of a four-kilometre-long illegal pipeline in the Niger-Delta creeks.
As revealed by Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, the illicit pipeline was created from the Trans-Escravos pipeline and looped into the Afremo test line and had been operating for a staggering nine years! This massive economic sabotage should end.
The scale of the oil theft in Nigeria beggars belief. In his briefing to a Senate committee, Kyari said that along with that illegal pipeline, similar illegal operations had also crippled activities at the Brass and Bonny terminals. He added, “The combined effect is that you have lost 600,000 barrels per day when you do a reality check.” Reuters quoted him as saying the illegal pipeline cost a loss of 250,000bpd.
Several pointers to Nigeria’s misrule arise from these recent gyrations. First, the scale of crude oil theft in the country is probably higher that the 400,000bpd given by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Silva; or the 470,000bpd recently given by Kyari. Based on the uncovered illegal pipelines and closure of two other terminals, Kyari told senators that 600,000bpd were lost.
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