By Biola Lawal
Abuja (Flowerbudnews) The Nigerian Navy has been commended for the string of recent successes it recorded against economic saboteurs, especially crude oil thieves in the creeks of the Niger Delta area.
Former Naval Spokesman, Navy Commodore Kabir Aliyu, who gave the commendation in an interview with Flowerbudnews on Friday, particularly lauded Nigerian Navy for bursting a 9.6 Million litres capacity illegal refinery in the creeks of Rivers State few days ago.
(Former Naval Spokesman, (Rtd) Navy Commodore Kabir Aliyu)
”This is a significant milestone in the war against crude oil theft,” Navy Comdre Aliyu (Rtd) stressed, adding that with current determination and effectiveness of naval operations against oil bunkerers, the oil thieves could be defeated.
The former Naval Spokesman urged the Navy to intensify the operations to totally eliminate the criminal elements sabotaging the national economy and depriving the country of the much needed revenue for growth and development.
Comdre Aliyu (Rtd) also commended the media for its support for the naval efforts in the Niger Delta, citing the example of Flowerbudnews’ robust reports of the recent naval operations.
(Former Naval Spokesman, (Rtd) Navy Commodore Kabir Aliyu)
”With encouragement from media like Flowerbudnews whose proprietor had vast experience in Defence coverage and reporting, the security agencies will continue to make breakthrough in sanitising our maritime domain against all sorts of illegalities’ the Retired Naval General stated.
It will be recalled that the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Pathfinder uncovered and dismantled 16 illegal refineries with capacity to refine 9.6million litres of crude oil around Elem-krakama community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Navy also arrested 14 suspects, including a woman at the illegal refining site, who allegedly attached 14inches pipe to siphoned over 210metric tonnes of crude oil from wellhead 15 within OML18 operated by NNPC.
Speaking on the successful Operation, NNS Pathfinder Commander, Commodore Desmond Igbo, said the suspects were arrested in the act of crude oil theft and illegally oil refining activities (Flowerbudnews)
