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it's called insurance when established authority cannot or willnot
provide domestic or economic security
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Nigeria oil giant 'paid rebels'
The head of Nigeria's national oil company has said it paid millions of
dollars to militants to protect the country's oil infrastructure.
Abubakar Yar'Adua of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) made
the comments to a national assembly committee.
He later said he had been misunderstood, and that no money was paid to the
rebels.
A militant group responded by saying they would blow up the pipeline.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) issued a
statement claiming they had nothing to do with the alleged deal.
"To prove we were not part of the deal, the Chanomic Creek pipeline and
other major pipelines will be destroyed within the next 30 days," the group
said in an e-mail sent to journalists.
On Wednesday, public hearings began in a previously scheduled national
assembly investigation into corruption in the petroleum sector.
It was the first time the NNPC had appeared to acknowledge paying militants.
In recorded comments heard by a BBC reporter in Abuja, Mr Yar'Adua told the
parliamentary committee that rebels had asked for a $6m monthly fee, telling
them to "take it or leave it".
"You have to pay, that's the truth," he said.
He was also quoted in local newspapers as saying that the company decided to
pay up to protect oil facilities sabotaged by militants after it lost $81m
worth of oil in two months.
"The price we pay is very high. It is difficult to get expatriates to work
in the Niger Delta," Mr Yar'Adua was quoted as saying in the Guardian
newspaper.
"We paid militants $12 million because we were losing $81 million to the
problem of the Chanomic pipeline in Delta State."
It has long been suspected by human rights activists that the NNPC has been
paying militant groups in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta to stop their
activities.
Mend's spokesman Jomo Gbomo said the payments had been made to a "criminal
gang".
"This criminal gang is not a genuine part of the Niger Delta agitation for
justice but a front. They cannot be labelled as militant freedom fighters."
Attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure have cut oil production by about a
quarter.
Mr Yar'Adua's remarks were made at an investigation into missing money
ministries were meant to have remitted back to the Federal Government from
their budgets last year.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7521194.stm
Published: 2008/07/23 17:07:06 GMT
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