On the possibility of using force if talks between the government and militants break down, Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said: “It cannot be ruled out.”
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“The 2016 budget plan was based on 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production. However, the budget plan is now grossly impacted due to renewed militancy with about 700,000bpd of oil production curtailed due to pipeline vandalism.”
Operation Delta Safe is a more targeted effort to curtail the menace of oil pipeline vandalisation by militants in the region, and is said to be in line with the Federal Government’s peace overtures to militants in the Niger Delta.
