Founder of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun has asked the Buhari-led FG to pay him and his organization the money owed them for the protection of the nation’s oil pipelines. He said 6 companies were given the contract by GEJ.
He noted that a total of 18,000 personnel were sent to the field out of which OPC contributed 4,000. According to him, “We were given the contract on March 15, 2015 and we deployed youths into the jungle. They faced insects, snakes and other wild animals and some of them even died.
The government did not pay us a kobo before or during the time of the contract which ended on June 15. We have asked our lawyers to study the terms of the contract. An official in the NNPC told me that we had been paid but I told him that we had not received a penny.
The holy books say that a worker deserves his wage. Someone who is now a minister once told Nigerians that I collected N2.8bn. Lai Mohammed, who I call a liar, is now the government’s mouthpiece and he must correct that impression.
Nigerians are angry today. They wanted a change and cheered when the APC came into power but the cheer has now become a jeer. Let the government know that this is not the change Nigerians voted for.”
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