Pipeline contract: You can’t take over Eastern Corridor – Niger Delta activist dares Asari Dokubo

Niger Delta activist, Fejiro Oliver, has informed a former militant chief, Asari Dokubo, that his alleged plot to take management of the Eastern Corridor pipeline contract would fail.

Speaking to reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, Fejiro maintained that each Niger Delta neighborhood must be given the chance to supply safety for the pipelines that handed via their space.

Recall that the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, had not too long ago challenged Dokubo to point out proof of his allegation that the monarch and others acquired the sum of N2.7 trillion yearly from pipeline surveillance contracts.

The Sole Representative of the Monarch to NNCL/JV Partners, Prince Collins Oritsetjmeyin Edema, threw the problem in a press release on Tuesday following the allegation.

Replying within the assertion, Edema said that Dokubo’s newest intervention can’t be divorced totally from the persona he has cultivated over a number of a long time, including that his public picture stays deeply related to militancy, confrontation and an uncompromising model of political expression.

According to him, there are penalties past rapid argument when statements are made in regards to the Olu of Warri, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, PINL, Tompolo or different actors in a politically and ethnically delicate surroundings.

Speaking on Tuesday, Fejiro got here out with one other angle to the story concerning pipeline surveillance contact within the area, narrating how he was among the many first people who made the Federal Government to begin awarding pipeline contracts to host communities.

“I didn’t additionally discover it palatable that out of the three contractors engaged within the job, two are Ijaws with the final one being PINL led by an Edo, with the Olu of Warri who’s Itsekiri as chairman.

“Asari Dokubo is somebody I respect and nonetheless respect as an elder within the wrestle for useful resource management though via militancy – a transfer that’s now outdated and brought over by the pen and mental reasoning which individuals like myself and others now champion.

“He supported us within the name for decentralisation of the N2.1 trillion pipeline surveillance and made sequence of movies to that impact. It subsequently turns into shocking to see that he’s plotting to take [the] contract.

“Asari quotes N2.1 trillion paid to Tantita/Maton as a result of I revealed the figures after my conversion of the greenback equal paid to the businesses. He has by no means seen the contract papers. I’ve.

“To now come from nowhere and brandish a spurious quantity of N2.7 trillion is distasteful and this isn’t a lie I’ll sit down and permit to publicly fly.

“The motion and I particularly don’t assist a hidden agenda of rage baiting the general public with an unfaithful quantity all for an additional Ijaw man within the individual of Asari to take over the Eastern Corridor. I reject it utterly and denounce it right here and now.

“The Eastern Corridor Okunbo already gives the Itsekiris and Edo their own shares of the surveillance contract and should remain with them. It is the Urhobos, Isoko, Ilajes, Opobos, Bakassi, Ibibios, Efik and Ogonis who are yet to directly get the contract that should be crying to have a share and not Asari whose two Ijaw sons already control the majority.”