Nigeria Oil Company Paid Militants to Protect Oil Infrastructure

Abubakar Yar’Adua, head of Nigeria’s national oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, admitted to paying rebel militants up to $6 million a month to protect the oil infrastructure from sabotage.

Shortly after making the comments to a national assembly committee Yar’Adua said he had been misunderstood but it has been a long-standing belief that the NNPC had paid rebels to protect against attacks on pipelines.

Yar’Adua was quoted as saying, “we paid militants $12 million because we were losing $81 million to the problem of the Charnomi pipeline in Delta State.”

Militants have targeted the NNPC pipelines in the Niger Delta as a means of forcing payments. More than a quarter of the NNPC’s production has been lost due to sabotage.

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