Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has said that the nation lost about twenty two million barrels of its crude oil production to oil theft between January and June 2019.
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Obaseki made this known in a statement issued by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Spokesman Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja said that if nothing is done to curtail the ugly trend, the figure could double by the end of the year.
The Governor, who is also the Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee of the National Economic Council on Crude Oil Theft spoke at a stakeholders meeting held in Abuja.
He lamented that the menace of oil theft and pipeline vandalism were beginning to pose a threat to the national economy.
The Governor called on stakeholders to join forces and work toward eradicating the menace of crude oil theft that was currently on upward swing in the country.
