Pipeline Security Claims Raise Bigger Questions

Pipeline Security Claims Raise Bigger Questions.

Pipeline Security Claims Raise Bigger Questions Tracing the Reform Dividend from Fiscal Savings to Public Spending, Social Protection and Measurable Results There is a legitimate national conversation to be had about the cost, structure, transparency and Tracing the Reform Dividend from Fiscal Savings to Public Spending, Social Protection and Measurable Results There is a legitimate national conversation to be had about the cost, structure, transparency and effectiveness of Nigeria’s pipeline surveillance architecture.

There is also a legitimate argument about whether communities in the Niger Delta should derive greater economic value from the protection of the natural resources extracted from their environment.

When that conversation is reduced to ethnic insinuations, unverified figures and an apparent attempt to justify one contractor by attacking another, the country risks losing sight of the bigger issue: energy security is a national security matter, not a tribal entitlement.

That is where Asari Dokubo appears to have missed the point. In a video circulating this week, the Niger Delta activist questioned why Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has faced criticism over pipeline surveillance while, according to him, the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, and Dr. Osahon Okunbo were receiving as much as N2.7 trillion annually for protecting pipelines. Dokubo initially referred to the amount as monthly before correcting himself to annual.

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