By Etop Ekanem

The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen Christopher Musa has been advised to enlist retired naval chiefs who once worked in the Niger Delta area to synergise with oil facility surveillance companies, including Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd which has been visibly hardworking, to seal leaks towards achieving Nigeria’s oil production target.

National Coordinator of the Niger Delta Grassroots Organization, NDGO, Comrade Weyinmi Olley gave the advice on the heels of President Bola Tinubu’s marching orders to the CDS to ensure oil theft is curbed, to pave way for shoring up and meeting Nigeria’s oil production quota. The CDS recently visited the Niger Delta and commissioned projects in Port Harcourt barracks where he charged the Nigerian army to enhance their watch on oil facilities in keeping with President Tinubu’s orders.

Olley also said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori had capacity to and should rise up to handle security issues in Delta State presently falling fast to kidnappers and other criminals just as he advised that he should jettison party considerations and enlist the right hands to contain the growing security threats.

“The reported abduction of Joan Mrakpor, a former House of Representative member, former Director General of Asaba Capital Territory Beautification and Ex-Commissioner who courageously served the state remains shocking. The arms-bearing kidnappers audaciously shot into a church in Asaba in broad day light, killed her two police aides, and took her away from a long stretch of road from DBS Road, uninterrupted, to Asaba shores of the River Niger before freighting her to Onitsha by boat. This audacious feat was preceded by a daring wave of kidnaps in Agbarho and other communities in Delta Central where the governor hails from before getting to terrorise territories in Asaba, the seat of government”, Olley lamented.

“Governor Sheriff Oborevwori was a Special Assistant on Security to a former governor of the state and his team performed excellently on security at the time. Some members of that team may have changed political parties but those persons remain responsible and patriotic Deltans who knows that security is everyone’s responsibility. The governor should forget party affiliations and engage them for the security, stability and development of the state in keeping with his MORE Agenda”, Olley advised.