Nigeria, April 22 -- A fresh dispute over Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar pipeline surveillance contracts erupted on Monday as Abili Integrated Services accused Tantita Security Services of making false claims and sponsoring sabotage to discredit competitors.

At a press conference in Port Harcourt on 20 April, the managing director of Abili Integrated Services, Brown Edoghotu, said his company was wrongly portrayed during a recent National Assembly hearing on pipeline security.

The controversy follows a roundtable convened by the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources on 8 April, where Tantita, in its presentation, reportedly alleged that other contractors were complicit in pipeline vandalism.

Mr Edoghotu rejected the ...