Hard Times Await Oil Thieves, Pipeline Vandals As NNPC Partners Civil Defence

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has strengthened its partnership with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) towards making business hard for pipeline vandals in the country.

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, while receiving the Commandant General of the Corps, Abdullahi Muhammadu, at the NNPC Towers in Abuja also applauded the corps for securing the pipelines for transportation of petroleum products from one asset to another petroleum asset.

“I want to applaud the NSCDC for contributing their quota towards protection and security of our pipelines.”

Represented by the Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji, Kyari in a statement by the Corporation’s spokes person Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, disclosed that as part of efforts to rid the nation of the menace of pipeline vandalism, the new management was putting in place a performance-based pipeline protection system to enable relevant security stakeholders to live up to their billings.

Earlier, the Commandant General of the Corps, Mr. Muhammadu, represented by Deputy Commandant General, Aminu Abdullahi, said protection and security of NNPC pipelines and oil assets were part of the constitutional responsibilities of the Corps, stressing that NSCDC would continue to do its best to send pipeline vandals out of business.

He noted that the NSCDC would declare a date of the year that would soon be announced as an anti-pipeline vandalism day as part of concerted efforts to create more awareness on the dangers of pipeline vandalism to the national economy.

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