Nigeria to employ militants to guard oil

The Nigerian government announced it intends to employ the very same militants often blamed for attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta to guard the region’s oil pipelines.

In a surprising and certainly controversial move, defense officials said they would negotiate a possible protection agreement with militants.

“We will engage them to police oil pipelines, but they must first form themselves into limited liability companies for us to discuss with them,” Nigerian Defense Minister Yayale Ahmed told federal lawmakers earlier this week.

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