Officers and men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Pulo Shield have destroyed 127 illegal crude oil refineries in the Niger Delta arresting 29 persons in the operations.<\/p>\n
The suspected oil thieves were undergoing preliminary investigations before handing over to the police, a\u00a0 statement by the JTF media coordinator Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu said.<\/p>\n
According to the statement. troops from 19 and 3 Battalions troops from Edo and Delta states destroyed 24 illegal refineries and 73 Cotonou boats., with another 27 boats arrested in Egara creek along NNPC pipeline in Warri South.<\/p>\n
The operation, according to the statement, swept through several parts of Delta State resulting in the seizure of\u00a0 61-75 HP speed boats and a truck laden with 33,000 litres of diesel.<\/p>\n
Also seized, the statement continued, were 502 drums, 22 steel tanks, 4 plastic surface tanks, 77 metal drums laden with stolen crude oil and diesel.<\/p>\n
In Bayelsa State, said JTF, its troops from 343 Regiment destroyed 98 illegal crude oil refineries in Southern Ijaw council, seizing 119 tanks and 37 Cotonou boats laden with diesel.<\/p>\n
In a separate anti-oil-theft operation, said Nwachukwu, ” troops of 29 Battalion and the\u00a0 Gun Boat\u00a0 Patrol Company…arrested a barge with 3 crew members and a vessel Christened MT\u00a0 Tora Eagle with 11 crew members in Bodo water way and Akassa creek in Rivers and Bayelsa states respectively.”<\/p>\n
The intercepted barge, the statement explained, was laden with 3,600 drums of stolen diesel and a yet-to-be determined quantity of crude oil.<\/p>\n
“The troops also scuttled 5 illegal crude oil distillation sites and 10 Cotonou boats filled with stolen crude oil along Lewe, Bodo, Elem Sagangama, Oluwasiri and Bodo\u00a0 West in Rivers State,” the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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