The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the nation’s armed forces will soon be deployed to guarding the nation’s oil and fuel pipelines.

The GMD revealed this last week Wednesday when speaking on the Corporation’s effort to curb the activities of oil thieves in the country.

“Efforts are in top gear to fix all the crude and petroleum products pipelines across the country. The Nigerian Airforce would be engaged to provide aerial survey of the pipelines, the Nigerian Army Engineering corps to fix and police the pipelines and the Nigerian Navy to provide marine surveillance for the network of pipelines,” he said.

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