No fewer than five suspected oil thieves have been arrested with over 140,000 litres of stolen diesel recovered by operation Pulo Shield, the joint military operation deployed to protect oil installation in the Niger Delta region.
Disclosing this in a statement in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Saturday, the spokesman of Operation Pulo Shield, Lt.-Col. Isa Ado said the raids werr carried out by the troops within the past 10 days in the region.
He further noted that Nigeria Navy Ship, Delta, a maritime component of the operation patrolling along Benneth Island in Delta State, nabbed a boat laden with Gas suspected to have been stolen.
Ado was quoted in the statement as saying, “A total of 14 tanks containing 10,000 litres each of illegally refined AGO and four dump sites of suspected stolen crude oil were also discovered.
“The sites were destroyed while the suspects were taken into custody for preliminary investigation.”
Ado also said the Sector 2 of the operation in conjunction with Naval Forward Operation Base, during patrol along Akassa creek in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa, destroyed several illegal oil bunkering sites.
“The sites, four tanks containing stolen crude, three pumping machines and horses were destroyed in line with the Operation Pulo Shield’s mandate,” Ado noted.
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