Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers State, on Saturday chastised the federal government for hiring “one man” to protect crude oil pipelines.
The governor spoke when a Federal Government delegation on the security of oil and gas assets led by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, visited him at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, had defended the government’s choice of Tantita Security Services, headed by former militant leader Government Ekpemepulo aka Tompolo, as the recipient of a multi-billion naira contract for pipeline surveillance, in August 2022.
