Esther Odediran
Security operatives arrested some leaders in Delta state due to an alleged involvement in pipeline vandalism. The Delta Community leaders arrested over vandalism are from Ughelli-South Local Government Area of Delta State. The vandalized pipeline is a major oil delivery channel in the community.
Therefore, the oil spillage has affected the farmlands, rivers and other items in Oviri-Olomu Community. Then Indigenes and residents of the community had to raise alarm because of the great damage. Then security operative head out to fetch the Delta State community leaders and arrest them for pipeline Vandalism. The arrested leaders are suspected to have done the illegal act. The Vice President General and Secretary General of Oviri-Olomu Community have been arrested.
Peter Edariese, leader of Delta State branch of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in his statement signed and made available to newsmen in Warri confirmed the arrest of Delta Community leaders suspected for pipeline vandalism. He said;
Some of the key suspects, Victor Onadiemor and Austin Etata who are the so-called vice president-general and the secretary-general of the community have been arrested and now cooling down in detention with the Federal Government security forces.
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However, the President-general and other suspects in the society are at large. According to Edariese, the arrest of the suspects has brought;
air of relief to Oviri-Olomu community” and its environs at the moment with great thanks to God almighty who made the feat possible.
Nigeria spends billions of naira annually to maintain pipelines used to transport oil products, with hundreds of such pipelines vandalised. That is the reason security operatives headed out immediately to fetch Delta community leaders and arrested them over Vandalism allegation.
According to NNPC report, a total of 1,161 pipeline points were vandalised across Nigeria in the 21 months between January 2019 and September 2020. In the past two years, Warri has been one of the major places where pipeline vandalism occur often. In September 2020, a total of 21 pipeline points were vandalized, a 43 per cent decrease from the 37 points recorded in August 2020.
