Nigeria Will Not Totally End Pipeline Vandalism – Kachikwu

Nigeria will not totally end pipeline vandalism without creating an enabling environment that will empower militants in the Niger Delta. This was the submission of the Petroleum Resources Minister, Ibe Kachikwu at a town hall meeting organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. According to him, “With the array of pipeline bombings by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, it would take nothing less than 15 to 20 years to get an infrastructure in the oil sector working and full eradication of climatic effects on the environment. “Modular refineries are going to be the answer to our problems in the future. We talk about the militants and their agitations; the reality is that until we begin to put things in place that would have these so-called ”˜militants’ find opportunities in the sector, the destruction is going to continue. “I have appealed to those who are breaking oil pipelines, for now, the Niger Delta Avengers and everybody else, and as you know, we are engaging in negotiations for us to find peace this week and be able to enter a truce that stops all the destruction.”