The manager of pipeline operations in the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC), Mr. Godwin Idoko, said the people would provide intelligence reports to the company, which will then forward such to security agencies to prevent the incessant vandalisation of the firm's pipelines.
The vandalisation of SPDC's 7,500km pipelines, which stretches across 600 communities in the Niger Delta, by militants and aggrieved youths has affected the company's oil production and export.
Idoko said the newly-recruited people would not carry arms, perhaps in a move to avoid confrontation between them and the militants.
Lagos - 05/07/2008
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