Ability Integrated Services MD, Debunks Claims of Pipeline Sabotage by Tantita
Pipeline Security providers in Niger Delta have been enjoined to work in synergy for the benefit of the region and nation at large.
Managing Director, Ability Integrated Services, Mr. Brown Edoghotu who made the call during a press Conference in Port Harcourt Rivers State, debunked allegations by Tantita Security that his personnel Sabotage pipeline Security.
Mr. Edoghotu explained that his company was engaged by Agip now OANDO, in twenty-twenty-one, to secure her pipelines in Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo and Delta States, an assignment they have delivered successfully.
He decried claims by Tantita Security that only them were genuine while other security outfits engage in pipeline vandalism.
“During their presentation, Tantita officials claimed that other contractors hired to protect pipelines sabotage those facilities. They showed a video clip of a man at the site of a recent sabotage.
The individual shown in that video is me. My presence at the scene after the incident was in the course of duty.”
The video was probably taken on September 22, 2022, just some days after TANTITA SECURITY commenced the contract awarded to them by the Federal government.
The incident referenced in the video happened at Oshika in Ahaoda west LGA on September 22, 2022. My team and I visited the scene on the same day. My presence at the scene was part of my responsibility to ensure immediate assessment and swift resolution, to prevent recurrence. I need to emphasise that I was on ground with my team, two representatives of Nigeria Agip Oil Company alongside the military personnel, police Force and Civil Defence Corps”
Mr. Edoghotu said that it was disturbing that during a presentation recently, Tantita Security displayed a video clip of him that was taken in twenty- twenty-two at a sabotaged pipeline location, claiming that he was a vandal.
He described the clip as a misrepresentation of facts and clarified that he was there on inspection to provide a solution in company of security operatives and representatives of Agip.
Mr. Edoghotu alleged that the perpetrators of the sabotage who were later arrested were working with Tantita Security.
According to him, Tantita also made a false claim about a reservoir that does not exist.
“Moreso, in the fictitious presentation, they claimed that they knew of a reservoir which is five times the size of an Olympic swimming pool. This is falsehood taken too far. An Olympic size swimming pool will hold 16,000 barrels of oil. Five of them will hold 80,000 barrels, equivalent to 2.5 million litres. That is a footprint that cannot be missed. What happened to the reservoirs and where are the owners?”
“We challenge Tantita Security to allow for independent verification of these claims by credible journalists and stakeholders by showing them such reservoirs because I know such does not exist in the area we cover. They should also prove that such reservoirs are old and have been there before the contract was awarded to them by the Federal Government.”
Mr. Edoghotu insisted that his security outfit would continue to provide adequate security of pipelines to enhance National earnings through increased oil production.
