OPC Condemns Killing Of 10 DSS Operatives

The director of media and publicity  of  Otunba Gani Adams led Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, has condemned the gruesome killing of 10 members of the Department State Security (DSS) Operatives by pipeline vandals in Isawo, ikorodu, Lagos state.
Oguntimehin in a statement made available to the media in Lagos  described the action of the vandals as ‘ highly condemnable.’
The OPC spokesman said: “An act brazen in its criminality which is injurious to the national psyche only   perpetrated by sub – human beings who are not fit to live.”
He lamented that some miscreants, who are being financed by a powerful oil mafia, was behind the dastard act.

Oguntimehin noted that the death of the DSS operatives at the hands of the vandals shows that the war against pipeline vandalism is an issue which cannot be handled with kid’s glove.
“The death of the bright 10 SS operators though sad and sorrowful is a testimony to the fact that the war against pipeline vandals and protection of our common wealth should not be localized within the confine of the regular security agents alone,” Oguntimehin said.
“ government must realise that oil pipeline vandalism has grown  from being a past time of petty and tiny  miscreants of the society , it is has assumed an organized high level criminality dimension being controlled by powerful and blood tasting mafia who cannot not be dislodged solely  by the regular security agencies.”
The OPC statement read in part: “it is high time for the Federal government to stop being   mono focal in its effort at putting a stop to the activities of the vandals with the regimentation  to the belief that only the regular trained security agencies can do it.
 “ The recent , three months monitoring of the pipeline by   private groups has proved to all that the engagement of the so called irregular or the socio – cultural groups brought modicum of stability and sanity to pipeline vandalism. This is a pointer to the fact that the war against pipeline vandalism should not be restricted to the regular armed forces .

“ As it is , the Federal government should confront  this dare devilry act of pipeline vandalism by involving both the regular armed agencies and the socio – cultural  groups which have been tried and successfully monitored the pipelines without major calamity and waste of human resources like this.”
He therefore called on the federal government to set up a dual joint action task force which should include the regular security agencies and the socio- cultural groups to combat the deadly activities of pipeline vandals in the country.