In order to tackle high rate of unemployment in Nigeria, the Federal Government and Host Communities Producing Oil and Gas in Nigeria, HOSTCOM, are set to engaged 10, 000 Niger Delta youths in pipeline surveillance and security services in the region.
This was disclosed in a statement presented by the office of National Chairman of HOSTCOM, Prince Mike Emuh, who said that the government and HOSTCOM had launched a campaign tagged, “Operation Secure the Oil and Gas Pipelines, OSOGP nationwide.”
The statement further explained that based on the urgent need to screen and train the first badge of 10,000 youths from the oil rich Niger Delta region.
It added that the decision to screen, train and engage the youths of the region on pipeline surveillance and security services was earlier reached at a national executive council meeting of HOSTCOM, attended by its national chairman, Prince Mike Emuh, national board of trustees chairman, His Royal Majesty and former governor of old Rivers State, King Alfred Diette Spiff, and chairman of the oil rich and impacted states of the region.
The statement by Amb. Benedict Opara, Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the national chairman, noted that the cost of training and engaging the first badge of youths was huge and capital intensive and called for discipline on the part of those who came out successfully in the screening exercise.
It also appealed to the other youths in the region and the agitators to unite, speak with one voice and give the HOSTCOM the required cooperation in its effort to checkmate and police pipeline vandalism, oil theft, illegal bunkering, illegal refineries and all activities deemed to be detrimental to sustainable development of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
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