Senator Oshiomhole has uncovered Military Generals allegedly concerned in crude oil theft in Nigeria.
PoliticalNews Nigeria reviews that the Senator representing Edo North within the Nationwide Meeting, Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that retired navy generals are behind unlawful mining throughout the nation.
Oshiomhole, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Inside, made the allegation on Friday when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Stable Minerals Growth, Sampson Ekong, submitted his 2025 price range report earlier than the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
The previous Governor of Edo State, who’s a member of the Appropriations Committee, stated the retired navy generals are identified to him and everybody.
He additionally recalled a letter he wrote to former President Muhammadu Buhari on the problem of unlawful mining when he was in workplace.
Oshiomhole stated, “The continuing unlawful mining throughout the nation is being carried out by retired generals, and we all know them. Sure, we all know them. No one in Africa doesn’t know them. I wrote a letter to former President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter when he was in workplace.
“It’s because a staff that I despatched to go and conduct the first someplace reported again to me the problem of conducting main elections in Zamfara due to the unlawful miners.
“If we’ve to battle this menace, we have to deploy the Military even to kill anybody who’s concerned within the unlawful pumping of oil. We also needs to deploy JTFs, comprising the Military, Police, and Air drive, towards them.”
Oshiomhole stated the nation’s efforts to diversify its economic system would stay a mirage if President Bola Tinubu’s administration failed to handle the problem of unlawful mining.
The panel agreed with Oshiomhole’s submissions and urged varied safety companies to take up the problem.