Asari Dokubo Tells Tinubu, He Will End The Oil Theft By Navy, Army If Given Support

Ex- Niger Delta militant, and the Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF,  Asari Dokubo, on Friday, vowed to end the oil theft in the Niger-Delta with the support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu even as he told the President that the Nigerian military are behind the huge oil theft going on in the Niger Delta areas.

He disclosed this on Friday when he paid a visit to President Bola Tinubu, revealing that the military, including the Army and Navy were the ones stealing the oil while intimidating the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, who he said had the status to protect the pipelines.

According to him, Tinubu had been a father figure to him for 30 years, stating 99 percent of oil theft and bunkering in the Niger Delta are being perpetrated by the Nigerian military especially the Army and the Navy.

While addressing the State House Correspondents after his meeting, he commended the political Will so far carried out by the President since assumption of office.

He explained that even if one billion contracts were awarded to everybody in the Niger Delta to stop the oil theft and bunkering, it would not work because of kingpins fully armed from the Army and the Navy.

Dokubo explained that he had volunteered to end the menace knowing that he would be fully protected by the Tinubu’s administration.

"The Army and the Navy intimidate the Civil Defense who are by status the people who are supposed to guard these pipelines. The receive a lot of money from NNPC, PCL and the IOCs and just across the corner, you will see a houseboat a few meters from the House boat, you will see an oil bunkering refinery or tapping directly from oil well ends. It is very pathetic now. What is happening in the Niger Delta in the past eight years was unprecedented in the history of oil production anywhere in the world.

“The vandals do not only attack the pipelines, they have migrated from the pipeline and have gone directly to the oil wealth heads and they take directly from the oil wealth heads. They set up haphazard facilities they call local refinery,  artisan refinery, this is crime against humanity. Because the livelihood of the people is being totally destroyed. The livelihood of the people is totally destroyed. And every meter you see a naval house boat  or an army house boat stationed. 

“So the main culprit are the Army and the Navy. And there are notorious naval commanders who are known to be kingpins of these bunkering activities. Even if they give 1 billion contracts to everybody in the Niger Delta, because these military men are armed from the Army and the Navy nothing will happen.

“The President has promised to take decisive action to make sure that these does not continue. It is brought to an end. It is very shameful. So I had volunteered to help, to assist and to do the things that are necessary to put a stop to this evil that is being perpetrated against the people of the Niger Delta, the oil community and the whole of Nigerians.”