PIPELINES VANDALS ARE HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES! THEY MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S FLAGING ECONOMY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 145. 22nd May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

PIPELINES VANDALS ARE HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES! THEY MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S FLAGING ECONOMY!

Some Nigerians who are sold to Satan in the Niger Delta region are on the rampage again! They have christened themselves as "Niger Delta Avengers" (NDA), and in two consecutive, devious and terribly destructive operations they vandalized the Forcados Export Line which supplied crude oil to the Warri and Kaduna refineries. They also burst gas pipelines supplying the product to gas-fired Thermal Plants across the nation with the resultant effect of a drop in production from 2.2 million barrels per day, which the 2016 Budget was predicated, to 1.4 barrels as at Monday, 16th May, 2016, because 800.000 barrels of the mono-economic product was lost per day to vandalism! Not only that, electricity megawatts have also dropped from 2.500 to about 1.400 since the last blow-ups of the same damaged pipelines that had just been repaired by NNPC Engineers at exorbitant costs and risks while the nation had been thrown into utter darkness! The NDA vandals' grouse is that Federal Government had consistently denied their region of all basic amenities under various pretexts and that the Ogoni Land compensation judgment including the land degradation clean-up agreement by responsible international oil companies had all been reneged!
Therefore they decided to take laws into their own hands by ensuring that production lines were continuously vandalized to prevent other parts of the federation from benefitting from the supply of the products but forgetting in the process of unjustifiable anger, that the oil spillages would become toxic wastes over the farmlands and fishing waters of the majority poor masses who have never enjoyed any social benefits from oil exploration in the region! During political events that led to the last general elections, ex-militants in the persons of Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom and Boyloaf all of the same region vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable if the former president, Ebele Jonathan failed at the 2015 Presidential polls, but these demonized youths have claimed no affinity with all the old foxes but made it abundantly clear that they were independent in their operations and would not attack the people but only oil pipelines! According to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, government was committed to ensuring that all destroyed facilities were repaired and effectively protected, and that it would work hard to resolve all grey issues in respect of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the industry and get the 2.2 barrels per day production back on stream! In three different administrations, beginning from Obasanjo to Jonathan, those renegade militants blackmailed government that they would be the most suitable people to protect the oil pipelines being sons of the soil and indigenes who understood the terrain more and for peace to reign, they were contracted and have all become millionaires/billionaires; but now that the contracts have expired, they turned out to become monsters and enemies of the state!
Billionaire militant, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo alias, Tompolo who is believed to own a private jet aircraft and a warship, is on the wanted list of the EFCC and being tried in absentia, for defrauding Federal Government of N47 billion naira from the pipeline surveillance contract agreement, though boasted to return to the creeks to vandalize pipelines, is on the run! However one of his allies, Ateke Tom, former Commander of the Niger Delta Vigilante has promised President Buhari to guarantee protection of the vandalized pipelines during and after the repairs! He described the so-called Niger Delta Avengers as frustrated, faceless and desperate masked group! He also appealed to the elders in the region to call the criminal youths to order to avert further sufferings of the poor masses!
Kachikwu was very straight forward with the facts concerning why it was so easy for the vandals to gain access, destroy the pipelines and escape apprehension and justice this far: In his words,"There are still a whole lot of things we need to pay attention to; infrastructure is key, but we have not as a country over the last 20 years invested in infrastructure in the oil sector. Our pipelines are 35 years old and none has been replaced; we have not been able to put gas infrastructure in place, our refineries are next to comatose and old and we are working hard on them.
"Our critical facilities are at a breakdown stage, so no serious infrastructure has taken place. No country in the world will expect that the price system in the country will benefit its citizens if it doesn’t invest in infrastructure. So the energy we put on PMS we need to begin to focus on building massive infrastructure all over the country. I know how much efforts it has taken to pump products from the south to the north, to the east and to the west. It has been one battle after another, but the time has come to invest in proper pipelines, proper tracking, proper buried levels and begin to move with the world". Previous administrations, for 30 years, neither constructed new pipelines nor made efforts to follow international mould and depth specifications in respect of existing ones to increasing laying and burying depth procedures, it was very easy for criminals to vandalize and escape with much ease. Why would it be so difficult for the Federal Government to ensure fool-proof security of these pipelines at this auspicious moment when it needed every accruable revenue from all God-endowed sources to escape glaring "brokerage"! The heart of man is exceedingly wicked, otherwise, why should some youths decide to compound an already bad situation of national insecurity at a time when every Nigerian was expected to support the new Change Government's populist policies?
Before the global Flood recorded in the Old Testament Bible, God saw that the wickedness of ante-dilluvian man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and He decided to destroy that evil generation because it was corrupt and filled with violence! (Genesis.6:5-13).  It's over 6.000 years since that divine intervention, but has corruption and violence ceased, or had the evil imagination of the thoughts of man been reformed in today's global earth? In comparison, crimes and criminalities of the ante-dilluvian generation can be best described as child's play to present day scenarios of  global acts of terrorism,  gun attacks, suicide bombings, bank robberies, human kidnappings, abductions, and traffickings, fornication, adultery, murders, assassinations, contract killings, increasing statistics of gang rapes, oil thefts, pipeline vandalism, money laundering, high seas piracy, massive frauds and embezzlement of public funds, election riggings, examination malpractices, false declaration of assets by public officers etc. All over the world, no government, country, nation, society, community or family is spared from experiencing the ordeal and corresponding trauma of the listed crimes! From the North to the South Poles, and East to West of the Equator the sordid stories are the same!

Several years before the insurgency of the Boko Haram which began in Nigeria in 2009, some organised Niger Delta Militants also took up arms to agitate against exploitation of crude oil natural resource of the South-south region, degradation of farmlands, pollution of the fishing seas through oil spillages, marginalization in terms of basic infrastructures of good roads, schools, potable water, adequate health facilities of modern health care centres, clinics, hospitals, housing programmes etc, and they moved into the Creeks to vandalize oil installations, oil rigs, oil wells, oil pipelines of the NNPC and those of the international oil companies as well, to buttress their anger against the alleged injustices! And so the cycle of senseless agitations as against peaceful negotiations have continued since the military era of Generals Babangida and Abacha and the poor masses of that region in the past 30 years, had been the worst for it because in all these years of agitation their farm lands and fishing waters remained further polluted like what is being witnessed with more oil spillages, courtesy of Niger Delta Avengers scoundrels!
It is reported that NNPC had lost N2.4billion in February to the Forcados pipeline vandalism which is strongly believed to be the handiwork of some unpatriotic sponsors who must be quickly exposed. It is also being suggested by NUPENG, and the Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), that tougher penalties should be meted to pipeline vandals who are both criminals and terrorists and that government should quickly fish out the masterminds! Supply of gas also declined of 70 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) to power plants in the same month due to vandalism of 48inch Forcados Export Line, in its February oil and gas report which also showed that the Warri Refinery was not in working order in January and February, while Kaduna Refinery did not produce in February. According to NUEE, Nigeria is one the countries that kept suffering from power poverty because the international best practice specification of the supply of 1.000 megawatts of power to one million population was recommended, but the country had at one peak period, only 3.000 megawatts for 170 million people! There can be no better time than now to unleash the Federal might on these scoundrels if they refused to accept the "Olive Branch" being personally offered by Mr. President for dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the imbroglio! However we still believe that the larger majority of the very poor masses in the Niger Delta Geo-Political Zone deserve a better life of modern social amenities as compared with other zones!
We have been reliably informed that President Buhari, will flag off the CLEAN-UP OGONI LAND PROJECT, to which N10 million had been earlier dedicated, in the second week of June, 2016. This is a cheering news and a right step in the right direction to show those wicked youths that it was better that the land be recovered for farm land than further pollution through pipelines vandalization!  Crude oil, gas, and all solid mineral resources extracted or mined in Nigeria, still remain Nigeria's major foreign exchange earner according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, Second Schedule, Exclusive Legislative List and by implication, the Federal Government's prerogative. Militants of all categories - especially the so-called Avengers, should be constitution-compliant and patiently wait until necessary constitutional amendments were made to increase their 13% derivative formula earnings or until they become stronger federating units for them to keep most of their oil revenue!
Pipeline vandals are vicious criminals, they must be quickly apprehended by combined security operatives of the Federal Government and be prosecuted as economic saboteurs if they rejected all entreaties to surrender peacefully and embrace dialogue!
NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF THE INCESSANT BRAGADO OF THESE NIGER DELTA CRIMINALS WHO ARE SO MYOPIC AND PARANOID TO REALISE THAT CRUDE OIL AND GAS ARE NO LONGER THEIR EXCLUSIVE PRESERVE! CRUDE OIL HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN LAGOS, EDO, ANAMBRA, AND THE CHAD BASIN OF THE BORNU STATE AND WOULD EVENTUALLY BE EXTRACTED IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES!
DIVERSIFICATION FROM CRUDE OIL TO AGRICULTURE, SOLID MINERALS EXTRACTION, FILM INDUSTRY, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM, etc. as foreign exchange earner products are also in the front burner in other states of the Federation! The "Avengers" madness must stop immediately and permanently!

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