The leader of the OPC, Dr. Fasehun took time to express disappointment in the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari; decrying the debt his organisation is being owed by the Federal Government - for the service they have been rendering to the nation in protecting oil pipelines.
He explained that six companies had been given the contract by the Goodluck Jonathan administration to protect the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines, toting that 18,000 personnel were commisioned for the assignment, of which 4,000 were from OPC. Fasehun lamented that OPC had not received a kobo before the contract, and nothing after it was terminated; adding that the contract died after Jonathan’s exit.
“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. We call the attention of the powers that be to look into this. The holy books say that a worker deserves his wage.”
On Minister for Information Lai Mohammed's earlier claim that former President Goodluck Jonathan gave the OPC over N2bn as mobilisation money for the March elections with the guise of pipeline protection, Fasehun had this to say;
“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.”
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