Collaborating with Natives will end Crude Oil Theft – Annkio Briggs

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

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“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

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“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

Read More Below..

“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

Read More Below..

“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

Read More Below..

“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

Read More Below..

“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

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“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Federal Government has been advised to seek collaboration with the people of the Niger Delta to ensure that Crude oil theft stops.

Niger Delta and Environmental Activist, Annkio Briggs, gave this advise while reacting to the re[ported burning of a seized vessel that has been involved in stealing hundreds of thousands of Crude from Nigeria.

The activist who described the renewed onslaught on Crude Oil theft as nothing but an election year activity by the Government said more needs to be done to address the situation.

She added that stealing of Crude in the Niger Delta is as old as Oil Exploration itself and that it will end if the government is ready for it to end.

She described as a very funny state of affairs the situation where all the Security agencies in Nigeria are in the Niger Delta but are unable to stop Crude oil Theft.

Theft according to her will stop if those who are refining Crude illegally in the delta are brought into the mainstream through allocation and imposition of terms for them to refine.

She also commended former Niger Delta militant Leader, Government Ekpomupolo, for the Strides his security outfit has made against Oil Bunkering in the Niger Delta in such a short time wondering what others with similar contracts as him have been doing.

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“It is alarming to me that it is now that the Nigerian government has found it necessary, because it suits the Nigerian government now to find it necessary in an election year to begin to shout about the crude oil theft. It has become necessary because there is no more money flowing the way it used to flow.

Look, I have said it decades ago, not even now, that the level of crude oil theft that they are talking about, it did not start today. It started from the moment these oil companies started lifting oil in 1958. That’s just the truth.

And I put this down to the fact that Nigeria cannot claim to be aware of the amount of crude that these oil companies are lifting. They don’t know. They don’t have the facility to know. All they are interested in is how much they will be given.

And so if a company is lifting, if shell tells them we lifted 900,000 barrels to date, that’s what Nigeria knows. Nigeria cannot argue with shell that it lifted more than that. So for me and for the Niger delta people, whose major issue is the environmental devastation we have suffered since the lifting of crude oil and the gas flaring and the fact that our resources is taken away from our land, first by the federal government and second, by their partners, the oil companies.

Now, looking at the video that you have just shown, even though I didn’t see it, but I’ve heard it and I’ve seen most of them online, the reality is that this is not news to us. Okay?

Look, people were shouting up and down about two or three weeks ago, or why give it to Tom polo? Why not give it to this person? But look at what Tompolo has achieved. Tom polo has achieved this because Tompolo knows what to do. There were other people who had this contract and still have this contract that have not achieved what Tompolo has achieved in less than one month.

And yet Nigerian government is shouting, they are losing money. They are not losing money. They are still getting there are people who are still making money from the theft of crude oil.

That’s what I want to ask you, because we understand that. I mean, come on. It’s a very technical process. I’ve seen videos as well, and we’ve done reports on that as well.

When you look at the process of siphoning off of the crude oil, and then the illegal refinery itself requires a lot of technical skills, and then there is a buyer as well, I mean if there’s no buyer this wouldn’t happen it means it just shows that there is a ring and it could tell of people who are involved in this and so who should be called into question I’m here I mean who should be investigated who should the Nigerian government be questioning, we’ve seen several arrests but not necessarily questioning the Nigerian government should question itself, the Navy is in the waters of the Niger Delta, people, the Navy is in my community the Navy is in the sombrero River, I come from a community that is on the sombrero River the the Navy is in Bayelsa it’s in Delta so when you ask me who the federal government should be questioning.

Because the federal government should be questioning the Navy the Air Force because these days you can use drone to even look into somebody’s home from America if you have the right drone so let’s not um let’s not pin this on the Niger Delta and try to hook it up to the issue of profile the issue of refiners, is not is not that highly technical if you see what they are doing they are doing it very crudely and that’s because the government has made it an illegal activity if the government gives these people license and give them terms and regulations to refine crude properly they will buy the crude and then you can do it, I can do it but I would prefer my people do it because it’s in our land but the reality is that the government cannot pretend to tell me that they drink this polluted water they inhale the polluted air that it is only just waking up to the fact that there are high place cartels in Abuja in Notre Dame in America all over the world that are part of this looting and Distilling of the Niger Delta oil first by a stroke of pen through the constitution of Nigeria and second of all by criminals who are stealing this look you cannot take oil from a pipeline without knowing that the pipeline that there is oil going through it that is technical what the people doing profile are doing it’s not

The pipeline should be secured first and foremost you cannot own what is in somebody else’s land they may face the problem of these issues go back to the reality that this crude oil belongs to the people on Whose land this crude oil is that’s just the truth now if you are not willing to address that then you’re not willing to address the issue of crude oil theft you cannot under any circumstances believe me I come from the Creeks and the child of the creeks, you cannot police the whole creeks in the Niger Delta you cannot just the same way they are not able to police the whole of the borders how many 300 and something borders that are porous in the northern part of Nigeria you cannot police the whole of the Niger Delta Creeks you can only do it with the uh with the collaborative operation of the people who own the Creeks yes so basically, Niger Deltans should be given the responsibility to also protect these pipelines since the pipelines are in their lands not the responsibility for me I think that they’ve uh the responsibility to protect it is just the list of the items of what should be done on the ownership of this crude oil ownership of these resources should be a result of what we have to go we own the crude oil not the Nigerian government we own it let us discuss ownership”.