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The meeting is to ensure that everybody is on the same page and carry same vision for more oil output and increase the Gross Domestic Product of the country.
A stakeholders’ engagement with host communities and important stakeholders has been launched by Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL), the firm that is responsible for safeguarding the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP).
The purpose of this engagement is to address pipeline security and recent transgressions. The purpose of the engagement, which is going to take place in Port Harcourt and Yenagoa on Monday, March 31, and Tuesday, April 1, respectively, is to increase collaboration between the corporation and communities along the TNP corridor, which spans the states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo, and Abia.
In a Friday interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt, PINL Community Relations Consultant Dr. Akpos Meze said the meeting will be held on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Port Harcourt and Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Yenagoa.
Dr. Meze told reporters that traditional rulers, Community Development Committees (CDCs), youth, and women leaders from Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo, and Abia states along the Trans-Niger Pipeline corridor will attend.
He added that prominent political actors from the four states, particularly Rivers State, where the political instability has been blamed for pipeline vandalism, will attend.
“There is that impression that the recent blast on the Trans Niger Pipeline under our management could have been avoided, so what we intend doing in this stakeholders meeting of all the community leaders, government representatives and all actors is to take steps to forestall further infractions.
“The meeting is to ensure that everybody is on the same page and carry same vision for more oil output and increase the Gross Domestic Product of the country.
“The Trans Niger Pipeline has been fixed and it’s currently working at 100% output.”
The PINL consultant disclosed that the company had been involved in Corporate Social Responsibility in host communities since inception, including providing relief materials for Bayelsa State flood victims after the 2022 floods and palliatives to all host communities in December.