Ex-Bayelsa Governor Accuses Lagos, Abuja Elites Of Masterminding Oil Theft In Niger Delta

• Senator Seriake Dickson alleges elites from Lagos and Abuja behind rampant oil theft

• Claims lack of scientific metering and monitoring system for oil production deliberate

• Accuses official security system, oil industry, and federal authorities of complicity

Eko Hot Blog reports that the representative of Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, Senator Seriake Dickson, has alleged that elites from Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, are behind the rampant oil theft plaguing the Niger Delta region.

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While speaking on a Channels Television’s bulletin on Friday, the lawmaker, who is a two-term governor of Bayelsa State, shed light on the complex web of interests benefitting from oil theft.

Senator Dickson criticized the systemic failure and lack of national values that allow for the exploitation of Nigeria’s oil resources for personal gain. He questioned the absence of scientific methods for metering and monitoring oil production, suggesting a deliberate oversight by those in power to perpetuate the theft.

“Why should a country like Nigeria that has been producing oil, exporting oil for the past 70 years not have a scientific way of metering, recording what leaves, what is pumped, what is sold and what is not sold? And it’s deliberate,” Dickson said.

According to the former governor, the influx of illegal money and arms, coupled with the rampant use of illicit drugs, has fueled cultism and violence in the region. He directly accused elites from Lagos and Abuja as being the masterminds behind the oil theft.

“People from Abuja and Lagos are the masterminds and the official system is not ignorant and not innocent,” he stated, accusing the official security system, the oil industry, and federal authorities of complicity in a “criminal, powerful system” that exploits the Niger Delta.

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Dickson’s allegations shed light on the alleged involvement of influential figures from major cities in the ongoing crisis of oil theft in the Niger Delta region.

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