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NNPC to explore community policing of oil pipelines

By on August 23, 2015

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has hinted that the corporation may settle for the option of community based policing to protect the vast  network of oil and gas pipelines in Nigeria.

Kachikwu said while playing host to the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb.Perry John Calderwood at the NNPC headquarters in Abuja, that he will give a lot of attention to the perennial menace of pipeline vandalism and oil theft.

A statement from NNPC’s Group General Manager Public Affairs, Ohi Alegbe on Friday, quoted Kachikwu to have said: “I intend to give a lot of energy to the issue of oil theft and pipeline vandalism.

We must keep the losses from oil theft to the lowest figure possible. I don’t believe in the arm-for-arm approach, we must engage the host communities and inculcate in them the need to see the assets in their domain as their own.

 

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