(Oil and Gas News) Oil pipeline fire looms in Ibadan - As thieves vandalise pipeline

ANOTHER oil pipeline fire tragedy is looming in Ibadan if authorities do not hasten to repair a ruptured Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline out of which petrol has now been flowing freely into a neighbourhood. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the pipeline, located at Idi-Iroko village, Odo-Ona Elewe in Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State, had been subjected to monthly attack by oil thieves in the last one year. But the situation climaxed on Tuesday, when men of the Oyo State Police Command, acting on a tip off, engaged some oil thieves at the broken pipeline site. It was learnt that the oil thieves, numbering about 25 swooped on the site, the second time within a month, at about midnight, loading the commodity in three 33,000-litre tanker trucks which they brought to the site of the vandalised pipeline. Confirming the arrest of the thieves, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Prince Udom Ekpondom, said the two men arrested with the impounded tanker were helping the police in their investigations. read more

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