The Navy in an exercise conducted by the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, seized four wooden boats with a storage capacity of seven thousand metric tones, while siphoning crude from a tapped oil wellhead owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.
Commander of NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Desmond Igbo, while conducting a tour of the location where the illegal activity was done on a wide scale, identified the oil field as Oil Mining Lease, OML 18, owned by NNPCL.
Commodore Igbo, who expressed shock over the wide-scale economic sabotage going on in the location, noted that the site has sixteen cooking pots with the capacity of six thousand litres of AGO each, while maintaining that the Navy will not relent in ensuring that illegal oil refining activities become a thing of the past.
Commodore Igbo, in an interview noted that the success was in furtherance to the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral, Emmanuel Ogalla’s mandate to fish out the economic saboteurs.
He, however, revealed that both the arrested suspects and seized crude would be handed over to appropriate Agencies and the illegal connection dismantled by the personnel, adding that the attention of the owners of the oil field has been drawn to stop the spilling wellheads.
Commodore Igbo, also called on community leaders to urge their youths to desist from such criminal activities.
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