Ijaw youths tackle ex-minister for linking Okuama killings to pipeline protection contract

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The Ijaw Youths Network, IYN, on Friday faulted a former Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Tajudeen Olarenwaju, for linking the killing of 16 officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army in Okuama, Delta State, to the pipeline protection contract awarded by the Federal Government.

Olarenwaju had asserted that it is unsafe for non state actors to protect oil installations in the country, linking the killings to the contract which is being implemented by Tantita Security Services Limited. However, faulting the ex-minister's claims, the IYN in a statement by its Coordinator, Frank Ebikabo, and Secretary, Federal Ebiaridor, said Olarenwaju reechoed the narrative being peddled by oil thieves and their cohorts who did not get the pipeline contract.

This rush to throw curious, unsolicited advice should be beneath him. “His suggestion is personal opinion inspired by lack of understanding of the story of the nation’s oil sector or a classic case of selective amnesia. “Such hurried viewpoints seem to suggest that some ingrained interest who are jolted by the gains of the campaigns of oil theft are at work. 'The military assets of the country are already over stretched.

 

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