The Niger Delta Stakeholders Forum (NDSF) yesterday rose from an emergency meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to heed their counsel and decentralise the pipeline contracts across different states and influences that make up the region.

They, however, sounded a note of warning that they were on their final efforts to save the economy of the country from agitations over the exclusion of stakeholders from the pipeline contracts, as the present situation was threatening to erupt in protests.

The stakeholdersnin a statement signed by Dr. Tari Theophilus, condemned what they referred to as actions of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Coordinator, Dr. Denis Burutu Otuaro, which they regretted threatens regional peace, national economic interests, and urgent reforms in pipeline/oil & gas infrastructure surveillance.

They regretted that their advocating for full decentralization of surveillance contracts across the Niger Delta was misrepresented by Dr. Otuaro and his affiliates as an “assault” on Tantita Security.

“The Forum stresses, unequivocally, that our call is for the decentralization of all surveillance contracts within the Niger Delta region to ensure local participation, equitable opportunities, and engagement of high-impact regional stakeholders, not to undermine any single operator.