With no apparent stop to Third Party Intervention causing up to $12 billion a year in damages to the country's pipeline infrastructure in Nigeria, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has established a 'Command and Control Center' to monitor the national grid in the South-South region and preempt vandals before they rupture the lines and steal the oil.

Emmanuel Okeh, spokesman of the Corps, said the “NSCDC as the lead agency in the protection of critical infrastructure has put a lot of technology in place to ensure the successful tracking of vandals and possibly to bring the act to the barest minimum." Over 100 personnel have been trained in the use of drones for pipeline monitoring. The new drones use GPS to document the times and places where vandals were observed.

In addition to the monetary losses, the business of breaching pipelines and stealing the product has exacted an enormous human and environmental toll: The National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said a total of 350 persons including NNPC staff, police officers and community members have been killed as a result of the activities of the oil thieves; while Shell has noted that the sabotage of oil pipelines is the major cause of spills and pollution in the oil-producing southern portion of Nigeria.

To further bolster the efforts of the NSCDC, Gracious Omatseye, National Chairman of Nigerian Institution of Electrical Electronic Engineers (NIEEE), has advised the government to engage all stakeholders in oil and gas pipeline host communities: "The introduction of an annual award to communities with less or no records of destruction of oil pipelines or electricity installations would go a long way in encouraging community leaders to ensure that pipelines and installations were not destroyed."