The Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, has joined calls for the decentralisation of pipeline surveillance contracts, awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.
President of Itsekiri National Youth Council, Comrade Appearance Afejuku, in a statement Saturday April 4, said it was hypocritical for the same people calling for state police and community policing, to support continued centralisation of the pipeline surveillance contracts.
The Itsekiri youth leader, posited that implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, as it relates to stakeholder - participation of host communities, makes it an aberration to re award the pipeline surveillance contracts to one or two Indigenous firms, when several host communities' contractors had demonstrated capacity and willingness to execute the jobs.
Afejuku, called on the federal government, through the NNPCL to immediately decentralise the surveillance contracts and award same to local contractors ,who have demonstrated capacity, saying decentralisation of the job, would greatly enhance our crude oil production per day and meet local refining needs.
" The era, when some persons see the pipeline surveillance contract as opportunity to intimidate others and claim communities that are not theirs, has passed" he stated.
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