The things you here and read about in Nigeria at times, just makes you sick to your stomach, everyone has a motive for something that'll rob the nation and yet we all pray Nigeria gets better. God help us.
So apparently community leaders and landlords in Ikorodu connive with hoodlums to vandalise pipelines as reported below:
There were indications, yesterday, that community leaders in
Ikorodu area of Lagos and landlords connived with hoodlums to vandalise
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipelines.
The Flag Officer Commanding the Western Naval Command, Rear
Admiral Ilesanmi Alade, gave a stern warning to vandals, their patrons and
residents of the area, to desist from the act or have themselves to blame.
Displaying the over 5,000 jerrycans loaded with siphoned
products before newsmen, Alade disclosed that several wooden boats, commonly known
as Cotonou, were destroyed in the creeks.
He explained that the operation, code named Awase, meaning
scatter in Hausa, was carried out with the support of the Nigerian Army,
following a directive from the Naval High Command.
However, the over 100 suspects were not paraded as Alade
hinted that investigation into their culpability was still ongoing.
Preliminary investigation, according to him, revealed that
illegal activities of vandals had been going on in the area for close to 15 years,
a situation he lamented had not only resulted in the loss of human lives but
also wreaked havoc on strategic installations and polluted the environment.
The recovered petroleum products were thereafter handed over
to NNPC Area Manager in charge of Mosimi Depot, Mr. Remi Eluyefa.
No comments:
Post a Comment