Niger Delta Youths Hails CDS over Crack Down on Oil Theft, illegal bunkering
A group under the auspices of The Niger Delta Youth Coalition for Peace and Progress, on Tuesday, hailed the efforts of the federal government of Nigeria in drastically eradicating activities of criminals and oil bunkers in the Niger Delta region.
The group described the continued fight by the office of Chief of Defense Staff led by Gen. Chris Musa, whose kinetic and non-kinetic operational apparatus towards the total eradication of criminal activities of oil bunkerers and other forms of crime in the Niger Delta is yielding clear positive results for everyone to see.
In a statement, signed and issued to newsmen by the National President, PST. Olayinka Jude Teidor, stated that the deliberate efforts by the CDS in combating the menace and saboteurs of the economy of the nation was very commendable.
The statement reads “As one of the foremost advocacy group in the region that has been championing the cause of the region through constructive engagements with relevant stakeholders, we can boldly say there’s so much improvement in the fight against oil theft, it has drastically reduced ”
“With our sincere commitment to see that peace and progress thrive in our communities and towns across the Niger Delta so investors can come in to invest not only by providing employment opportunities for our teeming youth but also fulfilling their tax obligations to government”
Its also to boost the revenue accruals to government which invariably will translate to more provision of social amenities and allied services by government to the people thereby engendering harmonious socio-economic co-existence in the polity which automatically become a win-win trajectory for everyone.
The Major General Jimoh Jamiu led special monitoring team has brought about relative zero perpetration of the hitherto oil theft activities that was very prevalent in the Niger Delta to a record low.
Since the current Chief of Defence Staff, General Chris Musa, took the realm of affairs, as the C.D.S, there has been a considerable decline in crime and criminality in the Niger Delta, especially oil-bunkering activities, pipeline and other oil facilities vandalization.
One salient point we will also like to laud the office of the Chief of Defence Staff is the collaborative Radio jingles with such dynamic and vibrant mass mobilizing socio-cultural groups that are grounded in the region, such as MOSIEND, Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta, sensitizing the populace on the ills of oil bunkering activities across the Niger Delta.
It is a very strategic media campaign to encourage the populace that we all have a duty to end this menace in our polity.
One other area we would like the Government to take a critical look at is to grant prerogative of state pardon and mercy to willing repentant former oil bunkerers who are genuinely desirous to be re-integrated to verifiable, legitimate livelihood opportunities after they have been duely and carefully profiled by a select security technical committee to keep a compendium of their bio-data in case they relapse to their former criminal activities so that they could be swiftly rounded up.
We also encourage everyone to join forces with the government to so that collectively we should be able to comprehensively exterminate the menace of crime and criminality in the Niger Delta, especially oil theft and pipeline vandalism.
