Bayelsa State Ex-Governor, Senator Seriake Dickson has made it quite clear that those people who are actively involved in crude oil theft aren't the Ijaw people. According to recent reports from Vanguard Newspapers, he revealed that there are some big players currently residing in Lagos and Abuja that are majorly involved in this crude oil theft happening in the country.
He explained that the Ijaw people who strive on a daily basis to make ends meet can not be involved in the high level operations that lead to daily loss of Nigeria's crude oil.
Senator Seriake Dickson suggested that the Federal Government should mobilise and label the Nigeria stolen crude oil as blood diamond in the global arena in order to bring an end to this problem.
Quoting his words, he said: "It (high-level oil theft) is not an Ijaw youths’ game, it is a game perpetrated by the big players, and they do not reside here. They are in Lagos, Abuja, and other world capitals, and I stand by that. I have said repeatedly, I am not saying it for the first time. It is a fact that is known to everybody.
The Ijaw people who live in the creeks and strive day-to-day for economic livelihood in our polluted waterways cannot engage in the high-level operations that result in the daily loss of Nigerian crude produced from our place. Those who can compromise and infiltrate the national security system, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, (NNPCL) system, and the shuttle vessels are not Ijaw people".