By Sandra Michaels
The House Committee on Host Communities has passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu, the NNPCL and Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, PINL.
The Committee chaired by Rep. Clement Jimbo also cleared PINL and its Managing Director, Dr. Osahon Okunbor, of all allegations contained in a petition filed by the Niger Delta Oil-Producing Communities Reform Movement, after the petitioners failed to appear three times despite invitations.
According to the subcommittee report adopted on Tuesday, PINL presented documented evidence of its operations which started in August 2022, saying the crude delivery to the Bonny Terminal through the Trans Niger Pipeline has improved from three percent in May 2022 to ninety-eight percent in September 2026.
The report also noted that OML 11, which was shut for eighteen months, was restarted within ninety days of PINL’s engagement, revealing that over two thousand illegal pipeline connections have been removed alongside over one thousand illegal refinery clusters destroyed.
The lawmakers however recommended that the Federal Government should extend PINL’s surveillance contract to sustain gains in crude production due to its current output of about one point
