A Niger Delta activist, Comrade Preye Tambou, has cautioned ethnic pressure groups in Delta State against politicising the federal pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, warning that ethnic agitation over the deal could threaten national security and reverse gains in the oil and gas sector.
In a statement issued on Sunday in Warri, Tambou said opposition to the contract along ethnic lines was misguided and counterproductive, stressing that the engagement of Tantita was based strictly on merit, capacity and operational effectiveness.
He noted that Nigeria’s crude oil output had recorded significant improvement following the company’s deployment, after production plunged to historic lows before Tantita assumed pipeline surveillance responsibilities.
Tambou dismissed calls for the cancellation or redistribution of the contract as ethnic bargaining, insisting that pipeline surveillance is a federal security assignment and not a resource to be shared among communities or ethnic blocs.
“Pipeline surveillance is a federal security contract, not a common wealth to be apportioned on ethnic considerations,” he said. “Crude oil remains a national asset, as clearly provided for under the Constitution and the Petroleum Industry Act.”
He warned that framing the issue as an ethnic struggle only fuels division and undermines collective security, adding that such narratives are political tools capable of destabilising national interests rather than advancing genuine development.
Pipeline Surveillance Not an Ethnic Entitlement : Tambou Defends Tantita Contract
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