How to end fuel subsidy, pipeline vandalism, by Ex-NNPC chief


A  former Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division  of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Prince Goddy Jeddy-Agba, has said the establishment of a control room equipped with competent professionals and modern technology remained the easiest way to end oil theft and pipeline vandalism. 

This is even as he added that the federal government needed strong political will to end the fuel subsidy regime in the country. 

He said the best way to stop pipeline vandalism was to lay the types of pipes that would be difficult to destroy while drones should be deployed to monitor those pipes and pour hot waters on the vandals.

Jeddy-Agba, a ministerial nominee from Cross River state, who spoke during his screening before the Senate, also said if given the portfolio of Petroleum Minister, he would ensure that all government and private owned refineries are made to function at optimal level.

The ministerial nominee also promised to ensure the establishment of modular refineries.

He said the Nigerian government does not need to pay trillions of tax payers’ money to subsidise imported refined petroleum products once crude would be taken directly to the existing functional refineries across the country. 

“We don’t need to import petroleum products. What we need to do is to strengthen the various agencies to checkmate the actual crude being loaded and write report. 

“We do not have the technology to monitor the process of loading up to the point of export. For now, it is the International Oil Companies that determine the quantity of crude they export because we don’t have control over their operations. 

“If I am in that ministry,  I will push for the establishment of a control room where we will monitor the process of crude loading up to the point of export. We can do that Nigeria”, he stressed.

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