Nigeria prepares to prosecute 500 detained oil thieves..

Date: 20-07-2013 3:46 pm (10 years ago) | Author: Magnus Uche
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is preparing to prosecute 500 people it has detained on allegations of stealing oil, officials said on Thursday in a crackdown on a criminal enterprise that drains up to a fifth of the country's oil output.

Gangs tap into pipelines in the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta, siphoning off hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a day in operations known as "bunkering".

The governor of Delta state, Emmanuel Uduaghan, told reporters after a meeting at President Goodluck Jonathan's house that the government was preparing cases for oil theft, which carries a prison sentence of 21 years.

"The resolutions included that a legal task force ... be set up immediately to commence prosecution of proven cases, using relevant laws," Uduaghan said.

Finance Minister Okonjo Iweala was quoted in the Nigerian press this week as saying that an estimated 400,000 barrels a day was lost to theft, or about a fifth of the output of Africa's leading energy producer.

About 90 percent of the stolen fuel is sold onto international markets, to criminal networks in the Balkans or refiners in Singapore, analysts say. The rest is refined for local consumption, filling a gap left by Nigeria's defunct legitimate refineries.

Security forces said on Sunday they had impounded three barges laden with 600,000 litres of illegally refined fuel in the Delta. But enforcement has proven difficult because Nigeria's own žsecurity forces are complicit in the practice.

Residents of the Delta say the lack of development and environmental devastation in the region of mangrove swamps has given many a feeling that they are entitled to help themselves to a share of Nigeria's vast oil wealth.


http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-prepares-prosecute-500-detained-oil-thieves-063339046.html

Posted: at 20-07-2013 03:46 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
- arsenal123 at 20-07-2013 03:48 PM (10 years ago)
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Criminals stealing in a country known for criminal rule... Poverty in a country known for enforcing poverty.
Tossing 500 people in prison will not stop the oil tapping... There are millions more waiting in line, many of them children...
Heaven forbid the government work to end poverty in Nigeria... That would mean the wealthy few having to give up some of their ill gotten gain. Unthinkable...
Posted: at 20-07-2013 03:48 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Toks-E at 20-07-2013 08:05 PM (10 years ago)
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A country suffering from misplaced priorities

Posted: at 20-07-2013 08:05 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- chicco77 at 20-07-2013 08:14 PM (10 years ago)
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 Tongue Tongue
Posted: at 20-07-2013 08:14 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- arsenal123 at 20-07-2013 11:50 PM (10 years ago)
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 Shocked Shocked Shocked
Posted: at 20-07-2013 11:50 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- nzewyte at 21-07-2013 12:28 AM (10 years ago)
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Wht abt po-lick-thievecian?

Posted: at 21-07-2013 12:28 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- nzewyte at 21-07-2013 12:30 AM (10 years ago)
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Hw many yrs do they get 4 not only stealing frm us.......also lying and deceit.....or aint they criminal charges?

Posted: at 21-07-2013 12:30 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- nzewyte at 21-07-2013 12:33 AM (10 years ago)
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Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Posted: at 21-07-2013 12:33 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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