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Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Bintus2much(m): 11:18pm On May 27, 2011 |
Nigerian youth employed to guard oil pipelines Nigeria's government has employed 12,000 young people to protect oil and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta. Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said the youth would patrol some 5,000km (3,000 miles) of pipeline to stop it from being vandalised. She said it was part of the government amnesty programme offered to the region's militias who were fighting for a greater share of oil revenues. Locals and criminal gangs often try to pierce the pipes to siphon off oil. Ms Alison-Madueke's announcement comes after at least two people died this week in Sapele, Delta state, in an explosion at a pipeline damaged by villagers trying to steal the oil. Few residents of the Niger Delta, home to Nigeria's oil industry, have benefited from the area's oil wealth. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producers, but attacks by militants on oil installations led to a sharp fall in output during the last decade. The thousands of fighters who laid down their weapons in a government amnesty in 2009 were promised training and jobs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13581459 |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by buzugee(m): 12:17am On May 28, 2011 |
thats progressive. 12000 folks with jobs. kudos |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Beaf: 1:03am On May 28, 2011 |
The next logical step is to arm them. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by jmaine: 1:15am On May 28, 2011 |
Beaf: With kpaco ( stick) or with guns and cutlasses ![]() ![]() |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Sunofgod(m): 1:27am On May 28, 2011 |
Beaf: . . . . with 'submarines' so they can thwart the activities of the oil bunkerers. (GEJ Keep it up - at least the money now flows to Nigerians and the Nigerian economy) |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Beaf: 1:32am On May 28, 2011 |
jmaine: Nigeria's biggest bunkerers are evil men like Atiku and IBB. These sort will not hesitate to spill anyone spying on their activities in the name of "youth patrols." If we see injuries or even deaths, the next line of action would be to arm the youth, or at the very least, make them a part of an armed paramilitary structure. I don't get what you mean by "we are looking for trouble" tho, cos we've got to stop oil bunkerers at some point if we are serious about siezing the future of the country and harnessing resources for development. We need to confront and tear down the powers that be and rip their structures apart; it is high time the youth were armed. Let it be fire for fire. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by jmaine: 1:41am On May 28, 2011 |
Beaf: Arming these youths might just turn out to be our undoing to successfully demilitarize the Niger Delta through the amnesty programme . .you can't predict the turn of events in the nearest future with those chaps handling mean weapons . . . Those weapons might just be the catalyst to kick start bouts of turf wars and finally criminality cos the penchant for humans to get tempted by opportunities presenting itself might just be the bane that will cost us more resources to solve . . . I prefer your suggestion of drafting them into a paramilitary outfit where order , discipline and line of command will be entrenced to forstall any member or group of the vigilante from going rouge. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by abiamahart: 10:03am On May 29, 2011 |
An idle mind they say is the devil's workshop. I will prefer a liason between them and the security forces. They should only be armed with communication radios enough to alert the intervention forces whenever they sight suspiciuos persons along the pipeline route. Equally they should be paid regularly while further creating the opportunity for vocational training in various oil and gas low to mid level skilled force. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Nobody: 10:40am On May 29, 2011 |
Sun of god: Which submarine, the one you bought for Nigeria Navy? ![]() ![]() |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Kgdavid(m): 10:52am On May 29, 2011 |
odiaero: the one that will go and malfunction and bury its passengers alive, dont mind him. honestly this is a step in the right direction but it obviously is not enough, these guys need to be trained while on the job to enable them take up more profitable occupation and when they move on it would create room for others to be employed and trained as well. the danger is that the youths could aid the activities of miscreants as well as being vey susceptible to any attack from MEND |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Nobody: 12:23pm On May 29, 2011 |
na wa oh! gatemen for pipelines now! only in Nigeria |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by 9ijaprince(m): 12:25pm On May 29, 2011 |
i hope they dont turn around and steal us hard this time around. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by mabell: 12:33pm On May 29, 2011 |
@ Post It's a good starting point more to come |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by Koikoi(m): 1:48pm On May 29, 2011 |
12000 youths off the street! that's something, anyway, lets see how it works |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by member479760: 3:53pm On May 29, 2011 |
good development indeed but better to employ more and more in order to get the idle one off the street. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by tutuwater(m): 5:18pm On May 29, 2011 |
I ll like to know more about the structure put i place. But, from the few experience i have from atlas cove depot. It seems we just legalised pipeline vandalism. Am sure that a good percentage of the 12000 can be easily bribed with gallons of oil. After the mend bomb attack in atlascove. Soldiers posted to maintain order arrested pipeline vandals including members of the then opatrol team, the navy and casual workers of the depot such as drivers. The soldiers recovered over 1000 kegs of 50 litres filled with petroleum products. The soldiers noticed it is easier to vandalize when you know the movement of the patrol team. |
Re: Federal Govt Employs 12,000 Youth To Protect Oil And Gas Pipelines In N.delta by ruggedboych: 11:29am On Jan 31 |
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