Mkpoikana Udoma
Port Harcourt — The Nigerian Army has said that information sharing amongst stakeholders is a veritable tool capable of finding a lasting solution to security challenges bedeviling oil companies in the Niger Delta region.
The General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Jamal Abdussalam, said this when members of the Oil Producing Companies Committee Security Group, OPCC, paid him a courtesy visit in Port Harcourt Barracks, Rivers State.
Abdussalam who is also the Land Component Commander of Operation Delta Safe, urged the group to resuscitate its activities, which he said has huge potentials for security and stability in the oil and gas industry.
He emphasised the need for information sharing amongst critical stakeholders in the fight against criminalities in the Niger Delta region.
He said, “The importance of information sharing amongst stakeholders cannot be overemphasized, it is a veritable tool capable of finding a lasting solution to security challenges bedeviling oil companies in this region.”
The 6 Division boss further said that the existence of the group will close existing gaps amongst concerned stakeholders in the oil and gas sector.
He stressed the necessity for continuous working relationship with the group, reassuring of the Division’s support, adding that the Division would have a focal point person that will continue to interface with group in order to guarantee free flow of information.
Earlier, team leader of OPCC, Mr. Abiodun Oderinde, said the group was at the Division to intimate the GOC of its existence, adding that they were out to create more awareness of the group’s existence.
Oderinde appealed to the GOC and the Division not to relent in providing security guidance when necessary.
According to him, the group has been in existence since late 1990s, and has been a medium through which security organisations of oil producing companies share ideas in solving security challenges facing the oil companies.
