The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu has disclosed that oil theft would be
completely eradicated in the next eight months.
Speaking at a one day seminar on Security in the Gulf of Guinea
organised by the Gusau Institute in Abuja, Dr Kachikwu said the NNPC
under his leadership is introducing a whole lot of measures to check oil
theft and to bring perpetrators to book.
Some of these measures include the introduction of drones to monitor
the pipelines as well as patrol the country’s coastal waters; equipping
and increasing the capabilities of the security services to carry out
their responsibilities as well as engagement of communities to police
pipelines in their areas.
As part of measures to ensure greater efficiency and transparency in
the oil sector, the NNPC boss said the PPMC would be broken up into
several companies with one solely in charge of pipelines while the other
would be in charge of products.
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