Nigeria: Pipeline Vandalism and Constructive Engagement

31 August 2016

Pipeline vandals have been with us for decades and the business of rupturing pipelines conveying fuel to depots just so as to trap a good quantity for quick money has blossomed over the years for lack of requisite will to nip the criminal act in the bud. Nigeria has enough laws, enough law enforcement agencies and more than enough oversight agencies.

Why then would such a criminal act thrive with so much resources being paid by the taxpayer and drafted to checkmate criminal acts like this? It would appear the criminals have a well knitted cobweb of a network that sucks in or better still conscripts the measures put in place to fight the menace and render it useless.

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