OIL thieves took to their heels, weekend, abandoning 150 drums of
illegally refined diesel, following a raid on them in Udu Creek, Delta
State, by naval men in Warri.
Commander, NNS, Delta, Navy Commodore Mohammed Garba, displayed the
impounded drums, loaded in three locally wooden boats before newsmen
after which he instructed they should be set ablaze.
His words: “the seizure was made by my men on Thursday, we acted on a
tip-off, but they fled before we got there, so it was an abandoned
seizure.”
He said following the zero level tolerance for oil theft, pipeline
vandalism and other criminal acts on the waterways and strategic
performance mandate of the Chief of Naval Staff, the Navy in Warri would
spare no effort to battle oil bunkerers and criminals on waterways.
Commodore Garba said the waterways in the state were relatively safe
as sea pirates were relocating to other states because of the manhunt
for them by security agents.

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