In what may appear as another wild goose chase, the Nigerian House of Representatives has set up a special committee on crude oil thefts.
The committee which is headed by Alhaji Ado Alhassan Doguwa has issued a strong warning that anyone caught sabotaging the country’s oil wealth will face the full wrath of the law.
In a statement signed by the chairman “We cannot in any way afford to allow our Tinubu and the APC-led government to continue to wallow in global borrowing as a result of consequential leakages in the production cycle of the oil and gas sector.”
He noted that the unfortunate act is largely caused by youth restiveness and “unacceptable vandalisation of our critical infrastructure by vandals and criminals in the creeks, and this has to stop.”
Doguwa hinted that the committee was mandated by the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, to unravel the remote and immediate causes of these problems in the oil and gas sector.
“The committee vows to do all it takes to save the present Tinubu-led administration from these unfortunate happenings in the oil-producing areas. We will make sure the committee brings to book the culprits and their political cohorts,” he stated.
This is not the first time the Nigerian House of Representatives is setting up a probe panel to investigate controversial issues in Nigeria and in most cases nothing positive comes out from such probes.
