An oil pipeline surveillance firm, Darlong Security and Guards Limited (DSGL), has denied allegations by a group that it killed some youths during its operations in Korokorosei, Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State.
DSGL in a statement by its Media Consultant, Chief Gift Ebiki, said the group, which made the allegations and all the names of persons it mentioned in the publication were faceless and fake.
Describing the allegations as unfounded, mischievous and politically motivated, he explained that the security firm was not an armed-bearing agency.
He said: “We earlier made it categorically clear that Darlon security and guards are not armed with any weapons to attack anybody.
“Our operations are basically to safeguard oil and gas facilities, mostly pipelines that belongs to the Nigerian Agip oil company limited .
“The extent of operations to check vandals and to keep criminals at bay on pipelines is the sole responsibility of the Nigerian civil defense and the Nigerian military guarded by the joint task force initiated by the federal government of Nigeria.
