{"id":98784,"date":"2022-08-31T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98784"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:11:08","slug":"nnpcl-finger-communities-religious-groups-over-oil-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/nnpcl-finger-communities-religious-groups-over-oil-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0NNPCL Finger Communities, Religious Groups Over Oil Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has again raised the alarm over the involvement of communities and religious groups in theft of petroleum products in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kyari stated this at the weekly Ministerial Media Briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team led by Mr Femi Adesina, the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to him, churches, mosques, security agencies as well as communities where pipelines pass through were involved in pipeline vandalism and theft of petroleum products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said so far, the NNPC, in conjunction with security agencies, had destroyed 959 metal tanks for storage purposes, 737 ovens, 452 dug-out pits, 355 cooking pots, and 179 wooden boats between April and August, this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He added that the security officials also recovered 207 pumping machines, 12 welding machines, two power generators, and two filling machines.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kyari said 11 vessels, 30 speed boats, 37 trucks and cars were impounded, while 122 suspects were arrested in connection with various cases of theft of petroleum products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said: \u201dAs you may also be aware, because of the very unfortunate acts of vandals along our major pipelines from Atlas Cove all the way to Ibadan, and all others connecting all the 37 depots that we have across the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201dYou know, none of them can take delivery of products today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kyari said: \u201dAnd the reason is very simple. For some of the lines, for instance, from Warri to Benin, we haven\u2019t operated that line for 15 years. Every molecule of product that we put get lost.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201dAnd of course you remember the tragic fire incident very close to Warri, close to Sapele that killed so many people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cSo, we had to shut it down and as we speak, the level of losses that we have on our product pipeline, and I\u2019m sure you may have seen it and I\u2019ll invite you at the right time so we can take a look at it jointly.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He also recalled the fire outbreak happened in the Lagos area, adding, \u201din one of our pipelines, we discovered that some of the pipelines were actually connected to individuals homes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201dAnd not only that, and with all sensitivity to our religious beliefs, you know, some of the pipelines and some of the products that we found, were actually in churches and in mosques.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That means that everybody is involved. There is no way you will take products, bring in trucks in populated neighborhoods, load it and leave without everybody else knowing about it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201dThat everybody includes members of the community, members of the religious leadership and also and most likely government officials of all natures, including security agencies personnel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201dThey are everywhere. And I\u2019ve seen this even in the Niger Delta. There\u2019s no way you would deliver a volume and lose up to 30 per cent and you will continue to put that products in this line.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He, however, revealed, the NNPCL had recovered 35.8 million litres of the stolen crude oil, 22 million litres of diesel, 0.15 litres of petrol, and 0.76 million litres of kerosene.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has again raised the alarm over the involvement of communities and religious groups in theft&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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