Alleged conflict of interest: Niger Delta coalition seeks termination of pipeline contract

A conjugation of stakeholders, Concerned Niger Delta Patriots for Transparency and Resource Justice, CNDPTRJ, has asked President Bola Tinubu to terminate the multi-billion naira pipeline surveillance declaration implicit concerns bordering connected alleged struggle of interest.

The contract, meant to curb lipid theft and boost Nigeria’s lipid accumulation capacity, is being handled by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, owned by a erstwhile Niger Delta militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known arsenic Tompolo.

In a connection connected Sunday, signed by Comrade Maxwell Efe, the coalition, comprising assemblage leaders, younker groups, biology advocates and different stakeholders from oil-bearing communities crossed the Niger Delta, argued that Tompolo’s dual relation arsenic some pipeline protector and alleged beneficiary of an lipid good creates a struggle of interest.

“At the bosom of this ungraded is the disturbing information that the precise antheral entrusted with protecting Nigeria’s lipid pipelines and facilities is himself allegedly linked to ownership of an lipid well,” the connection said.

According to the coalition, the improvement could pb to compromises successful surveillance efforts, to favour idiosyncratic and concern interests.

The conjugation faulted the mode the pipeline extortion declaration was structured...