Delta State governor, Dr.Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that the Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF, was determined to check the challenge of oil theft in the country.
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Fielding questions from journalists at the venue of the NGF meeting, weekend, Governor Uduaghan said that the measures taken by the Forum to support the Federal Government were paying off.
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According to him, the Forum had to do something after the shut-down of two major pipelines (Trans- Niger and Nembe) led to the combined loss of about 300,000 barrels per day.
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"This resulted in the drop of our oil output from 2.5million bpd to 2.1million bpd. But as I speak today, the two pipelines vandalised and damaged had been repaired and re-opened," he added.
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He said that the cooperation and vigilance of all Nigerians was necessary to check illegal oil bunkering, which had drastically reduced the socio-economic potentials of the country.
Stoppong Oil Theft in that part of the country is gonna be very difficult cos it is very much rampant over there. It'll be a hardnut to crack.