The National Probity and Value for Nation Building Organisation has praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for renewing the pipeline surveillance contract for TANTITA Security Company.
The group through its spokesperson, Adewale Balogun, appraised the work done in the fight against crude oil theft in the last year.
Balogun lauded the arrest of the vessel MT KALI and its crew by TANTITA Security Company owned by High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the Pennington Oil Field in Bayelsa State.
The group noted that the vessel MT KALI had made Pennington Oil Field in Bayelsa State its choice destination for allegedly stealing crude oil.
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It gave kudos to Mr. President for what he described as his unwavering commitment to continue salvaging the country from the brink of economic and security collapse.
It also acknowledged the work of former President Mohammadu Buhari in the fight against crude oil theft at a time when the nation’s hydrocarbon output had suffered immensely from criminal assaults.
Balogun singled out TANTITA Security Company and the NNPCL for the courageous, effective and reliable services it has offered to protect the nation’s hydrocarbon assets from the criminal menace of crude oil thieves and noted the successes recorded thus far.
The group, however expressed dismay at the statements credited to the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri calling for the cancellation of the contracts of private security contractors in the oil and gas sector and at the same breath also called for decentralisation for the same contract to include others.
The group suggested to the Federal Government to introduce security and theft metrics for oil and gas production in the producing states and that states caught wanting should be penalised and there should be deductions from the monthly FAAC( Federal Account Allocation Committee) funds to states.