The Navy also handed over to the EFCC one vessel an un-named barge, and two wooden boats from the Nigerian Navy Ship NNS PATHFINDER Naval Base, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt the Rivers State Capital for further investigation and prosecution.
While handing over the suspects, the Commander of NHS PATHFINDER Commodore W. O KAYODA said the suspected oil thieves were arrested on February 6, 2017 by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) PATHFINDER patrol team deployed for Anti-Crude Oil Theft and Illegal Oil Bunkering operations around Taraba Jetty, Borokiri, in Port Harcourt.
He said the suspects were arrested in the process of transhipping an estimated sixty thousand litres of suspected illegally refined Automated Gas Oil, AGO, from the wooden boat to MV OMISAN 1.
Similarly, on February 7, 2017, the patrol team intercepted a barge laden with an estimated one hundred thousand litres of products suspected to be AGO, and another wooden boat laden with an estimated sixty thousand litres of products suspected to be illegally refined AGO around Isaka axis.
No suspect was However, arrested with the seizures made on 7 February, 2017.
KAYODA said the suspects will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is completed.
