SENATE PRESIDENT ADVOCATES DEATH SENTENCE FOR OIL THIEVES

Senate President David Mark

Nigerian Senate is calling for capital punishment for oil thieves and those engaged in bunkering all in a bid to solve the problem of pipeline vandalism.

Inaugurating the Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill at the Senate, Senate President David Mark, said that there was no bigger punishment that could be meted out to oil thieves in Nigeria than capital punishment. Mark said he would not hesitate to append his signature to any law that could recommend death penalty for oil bunkerers as he regretted that Nigeria had lost so much revenue in recent times due largely to illegal oil bunkering, adding “oil theft deserves capital punishment.”

While charging the committee to recommend ways of curbing oil bunkering, Mark insisted that the law must have a huge punishment on those that steal our oil to serve as a deterrent to other people who plan on stealing our oil.

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