The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) said
it would pull out its men from guarding all Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) pipelines nationwide from Monday evening.
Yinka Oguntimehin, the Spokesman for
Gani Adams Faction of the congress said this became necessary because
the corporation had yet to start paying for the work its men are doing.
He said the corporation was, as part of the contractual agreement entered into, three months ago, expected to start payment.
The spokesman said the OPC personnel had
continued to guard the pipelines with the belief that the corporation
would pay as promised.
“When we were given the contract on
March 15, it was agreed that they will release money for the OPC
personnel for effective protection of the NNPC pipelines nationwide.”
“We lost one man last month because of
the activities of the vandals here in Lagos, while some of our men were
arrested in the course of protecting the pipeline.”
“We had told them to release some of our money before the new administration took over, but they kept promising us.”
“Enough is enough, three months have
passed since our members started monitoring the pipeline, and we have
fulfilled our part of the agreement.”
“By 10p.m today, our personnel will move
out of the NNPC pipelines nationwide and this applies to other groups
in the country,” he said.
The federal Government had in March
awarded a multi-billion Naira contract to the OPC to secure NNPC
pipelines in the South-West Zone of the country.
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