Former Niger Delta militant and agitator, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo on Friday spilled beans on activities of the Nigeria Military and Navy, saying they are 99 per cent responsible for crude oil theft in the Niger Delta.
He said, it should be categorically clear to the general public that the bulk cases of oil theft and pipeline vandalism recorded in the oil-rich region are traceable to the Nigerian Army and Navy.
Dokubo told State House correspondents after he met President Bola Tinubu behind closed doors at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
“The military is at the centre of oil theft and we have to make this very clear to the Nigerian public that 99 per cent of oil theft can be traced to the Nigerian military, the Army and the Navy especially,”
However, he pledged his support to the Federal Government to bring oil theft to “zero,” believing that the Tinubu-led administration would “fish out” the culpable elements in the military.
In April, the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative revealed that Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at N16.25tn to crude oil theft between 2009 and 2020.
The data gathered from the agency’s latest policy brief titled, “The cost of fuel subsidy: A case for policy review,” also stated that the country spent over N13tn ($74 billion) on fuel subsidies between 2005 and 2021.
Speaking on Friday, Dokubo said oil theft and security framed his nearly two-hour discussion with the President.
