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| GMD, NNPC Mr. Andrew Yakubu |
A month after three employees of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation were allegedly killed by
suspected pipeline vandals in Arepo, Ogun State, the police have found
their corpses.
The bullet-ridden bodies of
the workers were identified as a Deputy Manager in charge of Pipelines Right
of Way and two other engineers deployed in the area to repair a
vandalised pipeline on September 5, 2012.
“We found, in a decomposing state,
bullet-ridden bodies of the three victims. We learnt that the body of
the local security guard employed by the NNPC, Taye, was cut into pieces
and thrown into a swamp,” the head of the task force, Friday Ibadin,
said.
NNPC authorities said a team of
engineers and technicians of the Pipelines and Product Marketing
Company, a subsidiary of the NNPC was dispatched to carry out the
repair of a vandalized pipeline and had successfully put out the fire by ensuring a complete cut-off
of product supply to the pipeline from the Atlas Cove depot. It was learnt that the team was about to
access the damaged point to commence proper assessment of the scope of
work when the vandals opened fire, killing the officials and injuring
several others.
One of the six suspects arrested, Joel, led the police to where the corpses were found. The other suspects arrested are Posibi Ruben, John Isaiah, Saheed Mudashiru,
Ineye Okpose and Timi Gnungun.
The bodies have been deposited in a mortuary.
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