Pipeline Contract: Don’t allow violence return to Niger Delta – Group cautions Tinubu, NASS

The United Niger Delta Congress has called connected President Bola Tinubu to intervene successful the ongoing pipeline surveillance contracts situation successful the Niger Delta and not let the portion instrumentality to the days of violence.

The relation made the telephone successful absorption to the caller ballot of assurance passed connected 1 of the large pipeline contractors successful the portion by the Senate and House of Reps Committees.

The relation described the national lawmakers’ enactment arsenic not lone misguided, but a sedate overreach of legislative authority.

“The National Assembly does not person the law oregon statutory mandate to award, renew, oregon endorse specified contracts,” it said IN a property connection work by Julius Malam-Obi, its President and Emaluji, Secretary General successful Abuja connected Tuesday.

“Even much troubling is the contradiction of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, a landmark authorities enacted by the aforesaid National Assembly,” the added.

“The PIA, peculiarly Chapter 3, Section 257, explicitly recognizes Host Communities arsenic cardinal stakeholders successful the extortion and absorption of lipid and state assets wrong their domains.

“Any effort to ore pipeline surveillance responsibilities successful a monopolistic operation straight violates some the missive and tone of this law.

“What is unfolding is not gov...