Oil theft: NSCDC Operatives Comb Rivers, Arrest Three
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) operatives continued to comb the Niger Delta region using the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad to effect the arrest of three suspects for vandalism of oil pipeline and oil theft.
The suspects also engaged in illegal dealings in petroleum products at Umuodo, Umuajuloke Community in Omuma local government area of Rivers state, according to information obtained from the NSCDC headquarters in Abuja on Monday, July 15.
The public relations officer of the corps, Babawale Afolabi, said in a statement that the Squad deployed its intelligence assets to access the terrain and effect the arrest of the suspects.
He quoted the Commander of the Squad, DC Apollo Dandaura as saying that the arrest was made possible through sustained Intelligence that an illegal oil refinery was in the area.
It was also discovered that large quantities of illegally refined petroleum products suspected to be Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) were hidden in the area.
“Based on credible Intelligence we swung into action and arrested 3 suspects at the crime scene with large quantities of illegally refined AGO already stored inside metallic drums while others were inside cellophane bags”, he said.
Afolabi gave the names of the arrested suspects as Happiness Nwankwo (F) 45years, an indigene of Omuma in Rivers State, Nnoma Nwankwo (F) 30 years also from Rivers State, and Favour Amadi (F) from Omuma in same Rivers State.
Afolabi gave the names of the arrested suspects as Happiness Nwankwo (F) 45years, an indigene of Omuma in Rivers State, Nnoma Nwankwo (F) 30 years also from Rivers State, and Favour Amadi (F) from Omuma in same Rivers State.
