PIPELINES SURVEILLANCE CONTRACT: CALL BAYO OJULARI TO ORDER – MAYOR AKPODORO URGES TINUBU OVER TANTITA SECURITY
The Head, Association of Urhobo Mayoral Family Crown, AUMFC who is the Mayor of Urhoboland and business mogul, His Excellency Eshanekpe Israel popularly known as Akpodoro has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call the Chief Group Executive Officer, CGEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL Mr Bayo Ojulari to order accusing him of attempt to tinker with the oil pipelines surveillance contract awarded Tantita Security Services Nig LTD, TSSNL.
In a statement issued by the ex-militant leader in Abuja, Tuesday, he alleged that the NNPCL boss is stoking crisis in the Niger Delta region warning that any attempt by Ojulari to threaten the contract he said has impacted positively on the life of Niger Delta youths and persons will be aggressively resisted. The mayor said Ojualari took up the appointment given him by the federal government with a mindset to sistort the existing peace in the region in his alleged plan to undermine the peace and security of the region.
AKpodoro warned the President against what he described as sinister motives by the NNPCL chief to attract bad feelings against the President towards his 2027 reelection bid stressing that Ojulari seems working for opposition elements citing his highhandedness and recklessness in handling touchy issues that impinges on the integrity of the current administration one of which he said is the sacking of over 4000 workers of the Corporation since taking over as the Group Chief Executive of the Petroleum Industry.
His Excellency further alleged that Ojulari, a Kwara State born Nigerian is fast inflicting damage on the good reputation of the President in the Delta region raising suspicion that he has a mandate to sabotage the president’s goodwill and thwart his popularity which he said may be dwindling due to the actions and inaction of Ojulari.
Ojulari according to Akpodoro inherited the oil pipelines surveillance contract awarded TSSNL and managed by High Chief Government Ekpemukpolo popularly known as Tomopolo but has become a huge threat to the job through which the youths in the region are meaningfully engaged and eking out their living.
Abinitio, Akpodoro argued that Ojulari is originally not deserving of the appointment as the GCEO of NNPCL but a Niger deltan who will see the need to add value to the achievements of the former GCEO, Mele Kyari through whose initiative the FG awarded the oil pipelines surveillance contract to a private firm a development he said has reduced oil theft in the Nigerian waters beyond expectations.
The enemies of Nigeria, Akpodoro said have seemingly found ally in Ojulari but quickly called on the President sack him before he delivers on his mandate to erode the progress already recorded by TSSNL before his appointment as GCEO.
“Ojulari should be reminded by his appointing authority that TSSNL remains the flagship of the safety and security in our Waterways. He should be told in clear terms not to tamper with the progress already recorded by the firm that has chased oil thieves out of the creeks and run them out of their illicit trade in economic sabotage. From every look of things, Ojulari has a mission to sabotage this administration. He should be warned. There are allegations of thriving corruption in the Ojulari-led NNPCL management, but we would leave that to anti graft agencies to unravel. Our concern in the region is that so many lives, including our national economy, are dependent on the success of TSSNL.
“Ojulari took over the affairs of NNPCL to undermine the sons of Niger Delta on the management board. He came armed with incendiary and bellicose intentions to throw the sons of the Delta under the bus. We heard on grape vine that Ojulari is demonizing and victimizing our own
Roland Ewubare, who is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the NNPCL. Rather than witchunting the owners of the resources, Ojulari should be told to face administration and leave internal wrangling alone.
“When the surveillance contract was initially awarded multiple contractors including late Captain Hosa and others, oil theft heightened with attendant drop in oil output in the world market, a development that caused the then NNPCL management to consider awarding the contract to TSSNL with technocrats like Chief Keston Pondi and others who have been able to reengineer strategies that have now become models for a water-tight security of oil infrastructure in sub-Sahara Africa. Ojulari should allow peace to reign. “
The Mayor warned.
