Nigeria recorded 1,600 cases of pipeline vandalism in eight months – Kachikwu
By Daily Post Staff on August 18, 2016
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, says Nigeria has recorded 1,600 cases of pipeline vandalism since January.
Kachikwu made the disclosure at the 2016 Annual Conference of National Association of Energy Correspondents with the theme, “Low Oil Price: Impact and the Way Forward”, in Lagos on Thursday.
The minister also said that the country recorded over 3,000 pipeline vandalism cases from 2010 to 2015.
He said that the impact of attacks on oil and gas pipelines was that there was no money to fund the 2016 budget.
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