Senator representing Bayelsa West and a former Governor of Bayelsa, Henry Seriake Dickson has come out with a disclosure that oil theft in the Niger-Delta is the handiwork of top Individuals in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Lagos.
The Bayelsa Politician stated this when he appeared on “Inside Sources” with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme on Channels Television on Friday.
Speaking, he said, “Why should a country like Nigeria that has been producing oil, exporting oil for the past 70 years not have a scientific way of metering, recording what leaves, what is pumped, what is sold and what is not sold? And it’s deliberate.
“It’s not a Niger Delta thing; it’s just happening there and it is unfortunate that it has destroyed communities because there is too much illegal money, illegal arms, illicit drugs and it has fueled cultism because people want to get the loyalties of young people to be able to hold territories where oil facilities are. They need weapons and young men that are always high on drugs. You think a man who slaughters and cuts off a man’s head and dismember him is normal? So, those are people who are actively on drugs.
“People from Abuja and Lagos are the masterminds and the official system is not ignorant and not innocent. The official security system, the official oil system, the official federal system, all of it in its entirety. It’s a criminal, powerful system.”
Furthermore, he stressed the need for a worldwide consensus to force the international community to reject stolen crude oil from Nigeria.
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