Post #424

📺And You Say We Lack Local Production 📺 🗣️ As Trump might put it: they had 500 beautiful refineries, very good ones — but they managed them so badly... 🌐 Nigeria’s security forces report having dismantled more than 500 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta, having arrested some 780 oil thieves and returned roughly 20 million litres of crude oil and petroleum. 🔥 Oil theft is an old, yet still urgent problem in Nigeria. Every year, there is some officials declaring the end of oil theft, and every year the volumes stolen appear enough to supply a small country. 🏹 It is mostly the trade of mid-tier criminals, who need it as a way to stay afloat — much like kidnapping for ransom or drug trafficking. This is slightly different in southeastern Nigeria, where militants who call themselves fighters for the independence of the state of Biafra also resort to oil theft to sustain their struggle. ⏩ Oil theft is one of the few issues where the interests of the government, companies, and ordinary people really converge. Whatever one may think of Shell or Biafra, when the soil is suffering from endless oil spills caused by pipeline intrusions — that's another thing. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow