The demonstrators, brandishing placards, disobeyed security personnel stationed to protect the facility as they urged President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to take prudence when renewing the contract in light of the deal’s history of willful financial mismanagement.
They have posters with messages like “NNPC Now an Osusu Ministry,” “Tompolo’s Pipeline Surveillance is a Fraud,” and “Sack and Probe Mele Kyari Now.”
There hasn’t been a significant increase in oil production since Tompolo was given the contract, according to Comrade Musa Adebayo, President of the Arewa Youth Congress, who also read the statement signed by Comrade Usman Saidu, President of the Northern Youth Advocacy for Good Governance Initiative.
It is therefore a serious subject of worry how much effort is being made to re-award the pipeline surveillance contracts to an ex-military general notwithstanding the tension, financial misdeeds, misinformation, and irregularities that are inherent in the contract, according to him.
“As concerned citizens, we should understand that the country is too tense to allow for any auction that may breed internal strife and more disputes among its citizens, and we believe that awarding contracts to someone who should typically be behind bars for the economic havoc caused in the Niger Delta region between 2016 and 2018 is completely anti-peace and anti-development.”
“As new facts and statistics continue to surface in the media, we anticipate that the federal government’s emphasis should be focused on understanding the exact cost of the pipeline surveillance contract as awarded.
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