The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had taken over the security of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines in the Lagos area, along with the Nigerian Navy, and craved the maximum cooperation of host communities.

Colonel Mustapha Anka, the Director, Army Public Relations, 81 Division of the Nigerian Army in Lagos, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Anka said the joint operation, code named: "Operation Awase," was set up to tackle the vandalism of the NNPC pipelines in Majidun, Ikorodu and other parts of the state.

raayah:
Good development!!

ki02020:
Imagine PDP won the election some agbero would have been left with the duty of guilding the billions of naira projects

vanunu:
This is not the function of the army, where is the police?

eliment:
Now I know Nigeria has a government. Thank God it's not the clueless one any longer can't just understand why a sensible government will give the security need of a whole country in the hand of ordinary touts and criminals

koikoi2:
If d duty of d army is to secure pipelines then who will fight boko haram and defend this nation?

chuna1985:
Lagos is in deep shiit, u see the soldiers completely vandalising those pipes like they did in Enugu.

Wsdm:

He only gave the contract to his colleagues. Just like Buhari is also giving the contract to his colleagues now(the soldiers). I have come to realise that a president employs most of his associates when he was an ordinary man because they are people who have lived with him for a very long time- jonathan is not an exception.