Niger COMPOL inaugurates 90 man team against vandals
To curb the menace of the vandals in parts of the state, Niger state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Desire Nsirim has inaugurated a 90-man Police Anti-pipelines vandalization team led by a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. Gambari Ibrahim.
At the inauguration of the Police anti- vandalism team, which took place earlier today at the headquarters of the state police command Minna, the Police Boss noted that pipeline vandalism in Gawu Babangida, Gurara Local Government of the state and also in Kaffin Koro, along Paiko road in the state as well as in Suleja Local Government Areas of the state had become one of the challenges confronting the state Police Command in recent times.
According to her the need to set up the police team was following the incessant vandalism of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s products pipelines in parts of Niger state by some hoodlums who Specialised in causing damage to the pipelines with a view to stealing the fuel for sale.
She enjoined them to henceforth treat any of the pipelines vandals like armed robbers whenever they were caught in the act, following reported cases of severe damages to oil pipelines with a view to stealing the products, so that they could sell it to black market petrol dealers who have allegedly constituted themselves into a ready market for stolen petroleum products.
According to her there were three local governments in the state in which the NNPC’S pipelines were passing through, which included Suleja Local Government area, Gawu Babangida, in Gurara local government and Kaffin Koro in Paiko local government Area of the state“We are beginning to see that people were beginning to specialize in vandalizing the pipelines in these local government areas.
"So, what I did recently was that I visited the spots which these people were vandalizing the Oil pipelines so that we could put security in place in these areas. We went round and have been able to identify the major areas and we are going to work with the local government administrations in the respective local governments and their vigilante groups including the NNPC’s officials because in these areas we have found that there were loop holes in the operations of the hoodlums.”
The Police Boss also expressed the determination of the Niger state Police Command to work with these people with the view to gather useful information that would assist the Police in the performance of its statutory duties of safeguarding lives and properties, stressing that the Command was poised at having more nipping points on those identifiable scenes of operations of the suspected pipeline vandals in the state.
Speaking further she said "during my brief visit to the areas, I found out that Petroleum Trucks can enter through the bushy areas of the respective communities and I decided that we will start keeping Policemen there for 24 hours to check the menace of the pipeline vandals in those areas, upon the realisation that we are beginning to see that people are beginning to specialize in vandalising the pipelines in these local government areas for criminal purposes ”.
She added that during the short visit, that she and some teams of cracked Police detectives in the state went for on the spot assessments of the areas and also visited the spots where these suspected pipeline vandals were causing damage to the pipelines with the view that she and her junior colleagues could put security in place in these areas.
The CP said “we went round and we have been able to identify the major areas and we are going to work with the local government administrations and their vigilante groups as well as the NNPC’s officials because in these areas we have found that there were loop holes in their operations.
"We will work with them and have more nipping points on those areas.
And areas that I found out that Petroleum Trucks can enter through we will start keeping Policemen there for 24 hours to check the menaces of the pipeline vandals in those areas.
And areas that I found out that Petroleum Trucks can enter through we will start keeping Policemen there for 24 hours to check the menaces of the pipeline vandals in those areas.
"Not only are we going to do that , there are areas we know that we need very special patrols like the areas in Gawu Babangida in which some of the places are right inside the bush, we will have special patrols in these areas. We also have nipped out points where we would have to put barriers because in some of these points , we need very strong barriers to curtail these big trucks.
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