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Pipeline fire: Senate blames NNPC, security agencies By Oluwole Josiah, Abuja Published: Friday, 29 Dec 2006 The Senate has raised concerns over the ineptitude of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and security agencies in safeguarding petroleum pipeline from being vandalised. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, on Thursday conveyed the Senate's reaction to Tuesday's pipeline fire in Lagos, which claimed the lives of some 700 persons. Ndoma-Egba said in a statement that the Senate was worried over the "seemingly interminable line of preventable pipeline fire disasters." He said like many other recent incidents, the Lagos fire disaster was preventable. He said, "The Awori pipeline fire disaster is not the first of its kind, neither is it the second nor the third. Since Jesse fire of 2000, the nation has been fed this sour grape on a regular basis. "The time has come for the NNPC and the security agencies to live up to their responsibilities of securing the pipeline against die-hard vandals. "Their excuses are no longer music in anyone's ears and no further excuses will be entertained while thousands of lives are lost due to their negligence." He also noted that while the Senate would not encourage pipeline vandalisation or any other form of criminality, those charged with securing oil facilities should live up to their responsibilities. He said the Senate was shocked and devastated by the scale of the destruction of lives and property in the inferno. The Senate also called on the Federal Government, the National Emergency Management Agency and other humanitarian agencies to send relief materials to victims of the inferno, especially those recuperating in hospitals. Ndoma-Egba said, "It is however our prayer and hope that the nation has seen the last of these all-consuming fires. "Our heart-felt sympathies and condolences go the families of the deceased victims, survivors in various hospitals, the Lagos State Government and the nation at large over this irreparable loss." In a separate statement, the President of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani, said the pipeline fire had dampened the joy of Christmas and Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. According him, "It cannot be God's plan that His children should perish in between these two great moments of joyous religious observances, the disaster must be blamed on the failure of man to do what is right in the sight of God." +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
