How powerful can a government agency be?

Nigeria’s most influential government office, the NNPC, on Friday openly denounced the Fed government’s plan to establish a Pipeline Protection Agency, which former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, dismissed last week as another chop chop.

NNPC made it point in the clearest and most uncomfortable ways to authorities. "We neither believe in nor support the establishment of any agency for the specific purpose of protecting pipelines,” a statement, issued alongside Pipeline and Products Marketing Company, said.http://kopnomi..com/2013/05/nnpc-tells-government-to-face-perish.html