Nigerian Navy Arrests Suspected Oil Thieves and Seizes Illegal Products

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Nigerian Navy Arrests Suspected Oil Thieves and Seizes Illegal Products
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The Nigerian Navy has apprehended two individuals involved in oil theft and confiscated a tank truck and a car loaded with illegally refined products in Bayelsa State.

The Nigerian Navy have arrested two suspected oil thieves , one tank truck used for crude oil theft and a Mazda saloon car loaded with 1,300 illegally refined products, in Bayelsa State .The Nigerian Navy have arrested two suspected oil thieves , one tank truck used for crude oil theft and a Mazda saloon car loaded with 1,300 illegally refined products, in Bayelsa State .

He said: “Acting on credible intelligence, we received information of a product being stolen and transported from an illegally refined site. “Also, we arrested two suspects, a male and a female, carrying the products and we took them back to the base, where thorough investigation would be carried out.”

He called for cooperation from the lawful citizens of Nigeria to assist the military in carrying out operations to curb crude oil theft, pipeline vandalism and illegal refining.One of the suspects, Mr Nelson Adeh, said he was a driver who was only transporting the products for the arrested lady from the JK4 community to Mbiama before he was arrested.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities.

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