You all get emotional when the pipeline surveillance is about to be questioned because few of you feed from there.
You are fed with lies about a chicken change of N48 billion annual contract given to Tantita to secure the pipelines.
That small money is not enough to spend on the buying spree of properties in Warri, Abuja and Lagos by those running Tantita.
What is N48 billion?
That’s what is given out as sublease and political settlement to few.
Just wait.
I will dissect with DOCUMENTS the cost of the pipeline surveillance and those who runs it.
Right from day one of Ocean Marine Services/Tantita till last year multi million dollars renewal.
We are talking about our own commonwealth here and you want us to keep quiet and not question it or call for it scrapping totally.
This is why I will question the Tompolo owned Tantita, Matthew Tola, PINL and others running these contracts
Nobody is more Deltan or Niger Deltan than the other, home or diaspora.
Everyone who fought like they claimed for Niger Deltan have been compensated with Amnesty.
Even the current Amnesty office has been hijacked by the Ijaws, yet we should just clap for them.
Nigeria Is bleeding and a few are feeding.
Pipeline protection is a core responsibility of the Nigerian state.
It is not meant to be a reward system, a peace dividend without an end date, or a private inheritance.
Yet today, pipeline surveillance has become a permanent private economy, funded by public money, renewed yearly, and protected by silence. I no go join that silence.
This is not reform about any increase in oil production
This is outsourcing, outsourcing our money to less than 10 persons.
Whenever a small circle controls enormous public funds, armed surveillance operations, and political access, the danger is not hypothetical.
This is not a regional issue. It is not an ethnic issue.
This is not hatred of Ijaw people or against PINL
It is a justice issue, an issue where public funds should be taken back to our treasury not private pockets .
No region should be used as a justification to concentrate national wealth in a few hands, while the majority including people from that same region remain poor.
Some of you supporting this pipelines surveillance have no clue about how heavy and dangerous that contract is.
No dey tell me about agitation.
AGITATION SHOULD NEVER TURN INTO PERMANENT ENTITLEMENT.
Nigeria acknowledged past injustices. Late President Yaradua created the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Nigeria paid stipends, funded training, and promised reintegration.
That was meant to close a chapter, not to open a lifelong revenue stream funded by the rest of the country for Tantita and others.
When agitation turns into entitlement, and entitlement turns into monopoly, the moral argument collapses, the arguments of us in Niger Delta owning the oil. Oil money wey only a few dey chop instead of using for development.
A country cannot be secured by contracts alone and peace cannot be sustained by writing endless cheques.
End that pipeline surveillance.
Fejiro Oliver
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