Address issues of ageing pipelines, gas flaring – Ijaw youths, Niger Delta monarchs to FG

The President of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Worldwide, Doubra Okotete, alongside monarchs from the Niger Delta region, has urged the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, to regenerate lipid and state pipelines that person been successful cognition for much than six decades.

They besides appealed to organisations liable for safeguarding pipelines and different petroleum installations crossed the Niger Delta to alert applicable authorities to the hazards associated with ageing pipelines, decommissioned wellheads and state flaring.

They advocated preventive measures to beryllium implemented earlier immoderate adverse incidents occur.

They emphasised that pipeline extortion efforts should widen beyond preventing sabotage to see infrastructure-related hazards that could negatively impact the situation and populations surviving successful big communities.

The entreaty was made during a stakeholders’ engagement forum dedicated to protecting captious pipeline infrastructure, which took spot successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

The two-day forum, held connected October 9 and 10, 2026, brought unneurotic accepted rulers, younker leaders, biology specialists, assemblage representatives and different salient determination figures.

Okotete noted that surveillance initiatives ...