Pipelines: FG Moves To Demolish Encroaching Structures

The Federal Govern
ment has advised those who encroached on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) pipeline right-of-way to vacate such locations.
The Public Affairs Manager of Pipelines and Products marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Nasir Imodagbe gave the advice in an interview with newsmen.
He said government was ready to clear all structures obstructing the oil pipelines right-of-way across the country.
Imodagbe noted that PPMC has the mandate to clear obstructions to secure the company’s right-of-way.
The Public Affairs Manager who decried the high level of encroachment on the right-of-way, said that there would be no cmpansation for anyone whose structure is destroyed or demolished.
According to him, those encroaching on the stretch were illegal occupiers of government land because they had no approval from government before they built on the pipelines’ right-of-way.
He said oil pipelines passed through the way and that no structure was expected to be on it; stressing that demolition had already been carried out on the stretch in Lagos and some of the northern parts of the country.
Imodagbe urged those whose property encroached not to wait till government arrives to demolish them but to stay clear stressing that government was determined in reclaiming the entire oil pipelines right-of-way to stem activities of vandals.