OSPIVV Exposes SHELL/ NNPCL 4 KM Secret Crude Oil Pipeline Used To Steal Nigeria Crude Oil Since 2003

 

OSPIVV Exposes SHELL/ NNPCL 4 KM Secret Crude Oil Pipeline  Used To Steal Nigeria Crude Oil Since 2003

----- Reports  Alleged  SHELL / NNPCL Group  Culpabality 

By Wilson Macaulay

WARRI

A four kilometer Secret  Oil Pipeline

located at Forcados Terminal  

 used to operate illegal bunkering of

Nigerian crude oil  since 20003 has been uncovered and  exposed.  

This information was  disclosed and made known to the general public by

the Oil Spill Victims Vanguard,  (OSPIVV) a non governmental Organization incorporated with the Corporate Affrairs Commission ( CAC) as an initiative with one main objective dedicated to the fight for transparency 

and accountability in the extractive industries of  Nigeria.

Prince Harrison Jalla, the Executive Director (OSPIVV) who briefed the media on the economically devastating  issue yesterday  ,14th October 2022 at Sylva Link Hotel opposite the old airport in Warri Delta State asserted  that this illegal  pipeline  is attached to the facilities of SHELL Group and NNPCL hence the two corporate bodies should be held culpable  to account  for the Oil theft that has been going on unfettered  in the just discovered four kilometer stretch illegal bunkering activities

pipeline.

Prince Harrison Jalla averred  during the interactive session that OSPIVV on behalf of the people and communities

 in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria will 

remain committed and dedicated to the

war against oil theft no matter whose ox is gored.

According to  Jalla, the OSPIVV  Executive Director , no stone will be left unturned

in their effort or bid to recover all funds associated  with the illegal four kilometer  secret crude oil Pipeline 

criminally  dedicated  to  stealing Nigeria crude since 2003.

The firstline anticorruption advocacy

 group mouth piece   who  stressed that this massive stealing of the  nation's mainstay or  national resources  must not go unpunished ,disclosed  that  OSPIVV in line with her core  mandate as a legally registered body  to check economic sabotage and  racketeerism

  have  already  briefed  external solicitors  to immediately file an action against the SHELL Group and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited ( NNPCL) so that they can tell the court what they have been using the proceeds from this illegal bunkering activities for since 2003.

Mr. Hossana Jalogho Williams a consultant in environmental law who spoke professionally on the environmental consequences of the

 illegal bunkering activities said : " One salient aspect we must look into is the fact that no one can steal Oil without spillage ."

Hossana Jalogho  the environmental expert lamented that in the next fifteen to twenty years people from the Niger Delta region where these actrocities are being committed will begin to experience  different types of illness 

associated with the pollution caused by

Shell Petroleum Development Company SPDC and NNPCL. 

Hon Oyoziwa Johnson, Member  of the National Assembly and Pastor Aloy  Okerieke   who also spoke in full support

of the OSPIVV position explained that 

these naferous activities of siphoning

crude oil has adversely affected the businesses and means of livelihood 

of the people in the area who  are mostly fishermen and farmers.

The duo of Hon Oyoziwa Johnson and Pastor Aloy Okerieke reiterated that apart from  looking at the value of the Oil that was stolen since 2003 till date,

the ecological demage to the environment is indeed so devastating that the offence can not be treated with kidgloves.

They recalled that from 1970 -- 1980

those living in the Niger Delta can attest to it that our  water bodies where not poluted like the way they are today all just because of polution mostly occasioned by the activities of  illegal bunkering.