Buhari’s Aide, Boroh Accused Of Alleged Plans To Divert Pipeline Surveillance Contract Meant For HOSTCON

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd.) has incurred the wrath of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCON, over alleged plans to divert the pipeline surveillance jobs reportedly meant for oil producing communities in the Niger Delta region.

Addressing newsman on Monday at the NUJ Correspondents Chapel’s Press Centre in Warri, representative of HOSTCON who stormed the Centre in a large number, alleged that there are plans by Boroh who doubles as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme to truncate the agreement between HOSTCON and the Federal Government on pipelines’ surveillance contract.

They alleged that Boroh was planning to truncate the signing of the agreement between the Federal Government and the Host Communities, but warned him to perish the thought to truncate the agreement or divert same as doing so would spill doom for the already fragile situation in the region.

Acting National Chairman of HOSTCON, Dr. Style Benjamin who addressed the press, explained that HOSTCON is an umbrella body covering all the people of Oil and gas bearing communities in the region including ex-militants, but excluding kidnappers who they alleged Boroh was trying to protect in the scheme.

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According to him, both the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Federal Government are in agreement to allow the body take charge of pipelines’ surveillance.

“What HOSTCON expects from the Federal Government for now is an invitation to us for the official signing of the surveillance contract”, he said, warning however that anything short of that is capable of derailing the fragile peace being experienced in the oil and gas sector in the Niger Delta.

“We are aware of his (Boroh) manipulation of the amnesty programme and his payment mode and to remind him that surveillance services is different ball game and outside his schedule of duty and cannot mortgage what rightly belongs to the host community of the Niger Delta region”.