The Action Congress
of Nigeria has described as illegal, unconstitutional and indefensible, the
$40m being paid annually to some ex-militants to guard the country’s oil
pipelines.
In a statement on
Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
said “the reckless manner political power is exercised and monopolised by
a few individuals is partly overheating the polity.
The party recalled
that on January 22, 2012, it issued a statement in which it queried the
rationale behind the memo that was presented to the Federal Executive Council
seeking approval for a strategic concession partnership between NIMASA and
Global West to enforce regulatory compliance and surveillance of the entire
Nigerian Maritime domain.
In the same
statement, the ACN expressed concerns, because the Federal Government had
withdrawn a bill before the National Assembly that would have performed the
same functions being outsourced to a private firm.
SOURCE:The
Punch
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