Pay Me My Money - OPC Leader, Fasehun Tells Buhari

Founder of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr.
Fredrick Fasehun yesterday requested the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal
Government to pay him and his organisation the
money owed them for the protection of the
nation’s oil pipelines.
Speaking at a quarterly interactive media
roundtable in Lagos, the national chairman of
the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, explained that
six companies were given the contract by the
Goodluck Jonathan administration to guard
pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Noting that a total of 18,000 personnel were
sent to the field out of which OPC contributed
4,000, Fasehun lamented that his organisation
was not given a dime before the contract,
adding that after Jonathan’s exit, the contract
was terminated with nothing given to the OPC.
According to him, ''We were given the contract
on March 15, 2015 and we deployed youths into
the jungle. They faced insects, snakes and other
wild animals and some of them even died. The
government did not pay us a kobo before or
during the time of the contract which ended on
June 15.
''We have asked our lawyers to study the
terms of the contract. An official in the NNPC
told me that we had been paid but I told him
that we had not received a penny. We call the
attention of the powers that be to look into this.
The holy books say that a worker deserves his
wage.''
Recounting that Lai Mohammed had alleged that
Jonathan gave the OPC over N2bn as
mobilisation money for the election under the
guise of pipeline protection, Fasehun urged
Mohammed, who is now the Minister of
Information and Culture, to withdraw the
statement and correct the wrong impression.
''Someone who is now a minister once told
Nigerians that I collected N2.8bn. Lai
Mohammed, who I call a liar, is now the
government's mouthpiece and he must correct
that impression.'' He stated.
The OPC leader, while noting that Nigerians are
yet to see the change the APC promised during
the electioneering, said Buhari had spent over six
months in office but had failed to impress
Nigerians.
''Nigerians are angry today. They wanted a
change and cheered when the APC came into
power but the cheer has now become a jeer. Let
the government know that this is not the change
Nigerians voted for.'' He added.