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OPC Leader To Buhari: Pay Us For Protection Of Oil Pipelines Contract

Fasehun of OPCFounder of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Fredrick Fasehun has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to pay him and his organization the money owed them for the protection of the nation’s oil pipelines.

Speaking at a quarterly interactive media roundtable in Lagos, Fasehun who is also the national chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), said that six companies were given the contract by the Goodluck Jonathan administration to guard pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

According to him, a total of 18,000 personnel were sent to the field out of which OPC contributed 4,000, saying that his organization was not given a dime before the contract. He said that after Jonathan’s exit, the contract was terminated with nothing given to the OPC.

“We were given the contract on March 15, 2015 and we deployed youths into the jungle. They faced insects, snakes and other wild animals and some of them even died. The government did not pay us a kobo before or during the time of the contract which ended on June 15.

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“We have asked our lawyers to study the terms of the contract. An official in the NNPC told me that we had been paid but I told him that we had not received a penny. We call the attention of the powers that be to look into this. The holy books say that a worker deserves his wage.”

Reacting to the information minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that Jonathan gave the OPC over N2 billion as mobilization fee for the election under the guise of pipeline protection, Fasehun asked him to withdraw the statement and correct the wrong impression.

“Someone who is now a minister once told Nigerians that I collected N2.8bn. Lai Mohammed, who I call a liar, is now the government’s mouthpiece and he must correct that impression.” [myad]

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