The Nigerian armed security forces said it has stepped up its operations against all forms of threats in the country’s maritime environment and has intensified its fight against crude oil thieves, pipeline vandals and other criminals operating in the oil rich Niger Delta.
Nigeria has lost more than $3bn in one year – with more losses projected in 2022.
The plunder of Nigeria’s oil has left the country unable to meet its OPEC quota.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Niger Delta, Nigeria.
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Demi kesejahteraan lingkungan hidup negara Nigeria. Migas jangan sampai ada pencemaran lingkungan.
Nigerian military is protecting oil but doesn’t even protect its own citizens western Civilization has taught them well
And Nigeria military cannot do the same with boko haram shame on them
The real thieves are the government and the politians. Atleast these so called oil thieves can still refine crude oil; how many barrels has the government been able to refine despite the billions budgeted for the refineries yearly
Ww3 will be the most biggest and craziest war ever because legit everyone will be at war with someone who’s at war with someone and will have to join forces some
Hmmm…Black people…Black leaders…Black politicians! You have all proven for decades and since independence that you are not capable of leading a country successfully. Sorry to say….bring back the British once again to rule!! Afterall you all run after Europeans ideology and you love their skin colour. They have organisation skills and can lead successfully with record of accountabilities. Nigerians leaders are interested in looting your treasuries and buying houses in dubai etc. Just look at the state of your roads within your town centers….and other terrible infrastructures, yet you have these oils 🛢and gas resources. What a shame.
But what the root cause of this oil theft,its about the Nigerian leadership failing the local people around the oil fields
Everything said by the military spokesmen are delusional lies. The oil companies, the military, politicians, Nigerian regimes are the thieves. The massive oil pollution in the Delta was caused by their greed and lack of humanity to indigenous ethnic groups that they rendered powerless. Now that they have created monsters in bunkering, they want to pretend that their hands are clean. Shell alone is guilty of environmental devastation and genocide against the indigenous Ogoni people of Rivers. After destroying our environment and colluding with the government to kill us they want to feign innocence. Note that the military is made up of Northerners, who have not produced any oil but believe that they are entitled to ours. Note that the degradation you see in the video did not happen just at the hands of bunkerers. Note that this region, which has enriched multinational and national pockets for decades, has nothing positive to show for being Nigeria’s source of revenue. Note that the military, police, and many politicians have their own bunkering operations. Note that the oil companies, military, and government regularly create conflict in ethnic communities to keep Niger Deltans divided and powerless. Don’t believe anything the Nigerian regime or multinationals have to say about the issues in the Niger Delta, because they are behind it
The security personnel are the major problem when it comes to oil theft, they give them cover to operate, but they only go for those who are not under their payroll
Nigerian military protects their stealed oil by occident
The government protects oil from their citizens instead of the real thieves the occident
What are you thieves Nigerian governments are doing with the resource’s income? The answer is NOTHING only embezzling the money to your satisfaction, evil Nigerian government.
The land the oil and water belongs to the citizens.. Nigeria Government is highly corrupt.. the community that has oil can’t even feed 1dollar per day.. yet Government still the funds destroy the land and rig the elections with fake vote and bribery…. Ajezzera pls cover the side of the people too…
From the security agencies down to the executives of the oil industry in this report by aljazeera are all from the northern part of the country
You want to fight oil theft while you fighters of oil theft are the main thieves.
What’s wrong with the people of the region getting involved in this operations?
You are yet to say the truth about Nigeria oil theft
Good point.
What happens when you have money and humans it equals evil
Nigerian is one the country has many oils in africa this time has no oil in Nigeria some countries tried to destroy Nigeria was not possible anytime they burnt their hands and they want to open maleeshia Nigeria thought to fight that group many countries surprised Nigerian development last ten years we are saying keep going Nigeria.
“American companys who polluted and destroyed most of Nigeria are suprised the locals are attempting to take back scraps of wealth because everything else is completely dead and they have to feed their kids” This should be the description
@CanadianFitted because the corrupt sistem is such that ends up in situation like the ones u mentioned. It’s not very hard to grasp unless it is to preform a political narrative where 1 side becomes blameless to serve said side.
@CanadianFitted it’s at least 10 000 years old and it’s very much part of human nature. What is needed is more solutions and less idiologues in the blame game. The last ones who wage blame and finger pointing ended up comiting same atrocities or even worst ones.
@Rita Gameiro I have no political narrative or side i simply believe in equality, for people, for commerce and for our planet. And I agree, many of your points align with mine in a way in terms or corruption and human nature but we have the self-awareness and ability to acknowledge it at this point in time and see that it is completely unsustainable to allow corruption and the hoarding if wealth to influence any nation, especially the weakest and most vulnerable ones. History does not change but the flow of wealth and treatment of our planet can my friend.
When the Arabs are making money from oil and improving their lives, black Africans are destroying the environment and damaging their economy from oil God gives them to better their lives. So sad
Why tf are they all northerners
There’s something very wrong here
Wait did someway say oil oh no
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Drones is the only solution in this nonsense
Nigeria the power of Africa,,, rich in natural Resources,,, O Nigerians protect your land from the eyes of west and real oil theift america
respect from 🇵🇰
I don’t blame the oil thieves. The oil companies have destroyed their environment leaving nothing for them. They don’t have food, electricity, clean water etc. This is the only way they can survive.
I think it would be helpful to station some troop in the area. Place some high towers like wildfire watch tower in the states. If they had funding those towers could also have cameras in surrounding areas filling the gaps. All solar due to remoteness. Then having team stationed in towers being rotated may help with some of the hotspots. I would think it would at least be a little better than trying to not chase them every time or run through that muck. It’s probably not that easy but I wish I could help I suppose.
Buy Drones . U can cover bigger areas .
Share the oil’s revenue with the people
Nigerian companies should operate their own oil companies like Norway
Reminds me of the Banana Republic. The military does not protect the land. Instead it protects the industries that are exploiting the land.
People can’t use there own oil ..only sell mafia can buy it
Sell is doing this massive damage
With some actual discipline they could be all as rich as Saudi Arabia
How much are they stealing compared to what the corrupt Nigerian government government have taken from them
It will not stop till de FBI and western world live Nigerians to rule them selves period!!!
95% of oil thief is by government officials linked to the president of Nigeria.
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Go and fight Bono Haram stupid people
Nothing illegal about selling your own resources. Northern Nigerian government need to leave our people alone
Why are northerners seen on southerners business?
Stop showing these nonsense aljazeera
The real oil thieves are politicians.
Who knows the Naval career history of Commodore Suleiman Ibrahim @ 1:04, the guy looks tested and trusted to be leading such a decisive ship: NNS Thunder at such a young rank of Commodore – The previous ship’s commander was a Rear Admiral at least.
Incompetent Nigerian government.
The oils is for the citizens not u people u people are the thief’s because is belong to Nigerians
Shameful
Go and look for bandits and heads men bokoharam stop! stop! using military powers to attack helpless men, your failed administrations put this people in this situations
They are a destructive corrupt dishonest breed..
All the whole people in this video are northerns, oil produced in the souths are be managed and owed by the norths
The most useless military in thr whole world destroying peoples idea that they could have learned and improved upon….because all the federal government giant refineries cant produced a drop of oil.
If these thieves were given their fair share of it, they wouldn’t bother with the pipeline. Why are the Officers so clean if they are really working in that operation situation. Nigerian Bufflying Forces. A government that can’t handle the security of its people and their belonging is a fail state. I wish some courageous Officers will step up to do what they are paid for with NPB providing them the necessary operational facilities to look after the national wealth and stop most of these illegal activities.
You people should go after bandits
Free market should be prevailed where only demand and supply work. No government intervention is necessary.
Poor African governments! Those illegal refiners are a local resource that you can beach on to refine your own oil instead of selling crude for cheap!
but who the real criminel here
How can one steal something that belongs to him 🤔🤔🤔
Notice how it is Ibrahim and Hassan that were sent by the corruptians and the mumu fake president to destroy the owner’s of the land who live in penury yet millions of USD are sent from this same Niger Delta to the north while the later get nothing. God punish buhari
Never knew nigeria was controlled by america. 🤷♂️
sana oil
You don’t crush the site’s because Nigeria itself is a crime scene with hundreds of men identifiable as culprits and potential convict’s, if and when the rule of law prevails, They thieves ie(Nigerian government officials) past and present who have created themselves in the image of their foreign master’s thereby legalising theft through the privatisation of public assets which is effectively bought by the same people involved in the privatisation process, we are not fool’s we understand the difference between private and public assets and the natural resources of a country is not a private asset,I hope that someday justice will prevail and that which belongs to the people will be returned to the people unlike today when national resource & wealth has suddenly become a source of pain for the wider population and where the so called elites have gobbled up the nation’s resources turning it into their inheritance which is now to be transferred from one generation to the other while millions of Nigerians can barely afford one square meal a day, where hundreds are dying on a daily basis from poverty, deprivation, extra judicial executions,lack of access to a clean and healthy environment,lack of medical care for the people whose resource is the reason why Nigeria still exists,from terrorism financed by the thugs who proclaim themselves leaders.
They’ve completely ruined the environment
The real thieves sit in wallstreet, shell is stealing Nigerian oil and giving envelopes to a few corruptout politicians to send army to shoot poor people trying to make a living.
Vraiment n,embêtez pas les citoyens pendant ce temps les multinationales et dirigeants se gavent comme des canards vous êtes payés combien ? Les ressources appartiennent aux citoyens de ses pays et non aux multinationales tout ça va péter un jour
Nigeria is failed state
This is what the west and American want to hear from Africans because this is their benefit
My guess is America was keeping the oil before it was shut down. They did it in the Ukraine for over a decade.
The Nigeria Government is not sincere, they destroy illegal refineries, but go to Niger to buy refined fuel…just because it’s not from the north.
They are stopping big theifs that’s what it is.
So why is Suleiman not going after the minerals miners in Zamfara State? Are those not also property of the whole nation?
At the same time US “thief” looting oil from Syria.
Most of this thieves are working for the government and elites of the country
Victory
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Real simple shot on sight if captured public execution or cut off both hands. Problem solved oil theft will stop after the first televised execution and hand chop off.
Nigeria is a failed state
you that is calling them thieves is it yours they are in their country and in their land let them be the leave you to take and take of them but take instead of helping them you kill them you leave the north and own oil in the south hummmm there is God oooh
Nigerians reaping oil in Nigeria are thieves, but corperations doing it are legal.
The government will be using their resources to enrich their community leaving the community they bring the crude to surfer. Heartless leader’s.
Why are all the military commanders and CEOs fighting these so-called oil bunkering thieves in the (Niger Delta) oil-producing region Muslim Fulani from the Sharia Northern Nigeria?
The only solution to this crisis is the disintegration of Nigeria aka Liegeria-Hellgeria 🔥😭. Everything else is tired entertainment and tortured embellishment.
Heart breaking and sad… But the problem starts from the top
Thank you for covering this story.
Why cant they nationalise it and sell it to international players
Oil is the major source of income for Nigeria and the government is trying to protect it as much as possible they can. But corruption and bad government is killing our community and country
Who actually are the Nigerian military, where are they coming from?
So called Nigeria military or very corrupt government do not understand these people are in their own land or better placed, their own geographical space. If you feel that it is not a resources the Niger Delta people can not have what nature blessed them with for themselves alone makes your thinking as barbaric bandit snatchers in the first place, and having them and environment neglected where these resources are gotten makes you now the barbaric monster thief.
What did you do actually want from the indeginous people of Niger Delta? How do you intend that people of Niger delta should survive, if oil spillage had killed their chances of Agricultural endeavours?
how dare you call these national patriots “oil thieves”. If they are thieves, then ExxonMobil and Shell and Total are multinational plunderers engaged in the wholesale Rape of Nigeria’s wealth. Get your perspectives realigned correctly asap, al Jazera
And people struggling to eat are called thieves 🙄
Please go after Borkoharam and leave porr people looking for survival.
The people who do this should be hunted down and shot. Why ever did they let them get away? It is a crime against nature to do this to a landscape for money regardless of your misfortune.
Did the stealing, those waters are 100% polluted!!!
Then stop allowing the west to keep stealing our oil…. Why must we refine our oil abroad…. The west is manipulating our government
As far as the resources are not shared evenly and equally,sorry you’re wasting time!
Their taking it coz ur government is not helping ur people da government make so much money but look their helping der people don’t call dem theefs it belongs to dem
This report is funny. The criminals in this report do not have capacity to steal 400,000 bopd.
Biafraland republic simple
Fulanigeria cabals are making life’s so difficult for all indigenous people of Biafraland republic
Use the oil revenue to take care of the citizens, who are hungry, jobless, and poor) and they will stop their activities.
When you exploit and neglect the people of their livehood what do expect …
Government is real thief here they robbed 😒 the people too much..
They need to get their priorities straight, there are terrorist and bandits ruthlessly killing in the north and they are worried about oil thieves…
Those mining gold in zamfara illegally are not been referred to as thief but those in nigerdelter taking what belong to them, simply because they felt no government impact in their society are been tag as thieves.
Jail for life to all illegal refineries owners & workers.
I can tell you that these guys are not the crude oil thieves, the real crude oil thieves are in Aso rock villa , in the Nigerian parliament and in every corner of the Nigerian political system.
Lol.. Very funny, government officials know this guys. Even the security operatives are into it.
All this is just for the camera.
Abegi,the other day we read about how NSCDC security operatives guarding these guys.
For any oil bunkering,just know that either a government official or top security official is involve.
No be new thing be this abeg,it’s in news.
Not a single care about the environment or local communities. It’s all about the money for the government. Despite all the promises, not a single drop of crude oil is refined