Tuesday 24 July 2012

CRUDE OIL THEFT IN NIGERIA


         It’s no more a news that Nigeria is the only oil producing country where oil is being stolen by sea pirates. The oil theft in the country is estimated at about 9.6 billion naira [64 million Dollars] yearly. What a great loss!        It’s only in Nigeria that oil minister denies knowledge of theft in her backyard even at the expense of suffering masses who buy the same oil at a very exorbitant price.
  This theft involves the high profile individuals who have wherewithal to steal when the security agencies look the other way round. Our confused president does not have the political will to fight this corruption in the oil sector as he does not have it in other sectors. It’s called a ‘corporate’ stealing because the thieves are the high and mighty who can afford to buy the ships, bribe the oil experts and handle other logistics. The marine police, the navy and the soldiers, who are supposed to be responsible for the security, onshore and offshore, have been compromised.
  Mr. President told Nigerians that Islamic Fundamentalists, BokoHaram and their insurgency, were going to be stopped. He said he was ‘on top of it’ but till today, the Islamist have become more dreaded in Northern part of the country and no action has been taken by our dear president but fruitless steps for negotiation. Two lawmakers were recently killed while attending a mass burial programme for over hundred people killed the previous day! It’s in Nigeria that a lawmaker and a popular businessman who were involved in bribery scandal will still walk free on the street because our law separate the elites from the masses.
  Our president is always ‘on top of it’ but no action is taken. Curbing corruption needs transparency but not when ‘the top’ is corrupt. This oil theft is truly a bad news and Nigerians really need a leader who would be truly ‘on top of it’

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