The
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu, has visited the site where a renewed attack
on the System 2B Pipeline at Arepo occurred barely a month after it was
fixed following a fire caused by products thieves who had ruptured the
pipeline in August 2012.The Acting Group General Manager Group Public Affairs of the Corporation, Ms Tumini Green, in a statement made available to journalists disclosed that product thieves hacked at the pipeline again yesterday causing fire that reportedly killed 3 persons.
Mr Yakubu says “The Corporation is appalled by the repeated attacks on the pipeline at the same spot in Arepo in Ogun State, barely months after a similar attack last year, causing the corporation a hard time effecting repairs as a result of security issues”.
“The ripple effect was the hardship in product distribution which was responsible for the emergence of long queues at fuel stations across the country in the last quarter of 2012”.
He however says repairs have been affected and supply will resume immediately through the line.
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