Bunkering is outright stealing – Obasanjo

Obasanjo spoke when he hosted the former  Commandant General of the NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin.
He said:  “One of the things that I had to confront in my tenure as president was pipeline vandalism, holdup, and crude oil stealing, that stealing is what they called bunkering, there is nothing like bunkering, it is outright stealing.
“We used all the available agencies and resources and your organisation as a voluntary organisation, unpaid, unremunerated, unrecognised, uninstitutionalised, was doing a great job without being armed or equipped and that means the height of commitment, nationalism, patriotism and service to fatherland and service to humanity, of course, I didn’t hesitate to move ahead on an act of parliament to be able to organise you into what you are today.”
Obasanjo said the NSCDC leadership did its best in checking the menace of bunkering.
The former Commandant General who earlier visited Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State in his office thanked the former president for institutionalising the NSCDC.
According to him, the organisation which was founded in 1957 was left as an orphan until it was rescued by the Obasanjo administration in 2003.
“We today have about 60,000 personnel, all credits  to Obasanjo. One thing I have learnt from Obasanjo is his hard work, sincerity of purpose, Obasanjo has changed our story to a testimony,” he said.