Army arrests 28 oil thieves, recovers 290,000 litres of stolen crude

By Davies Iheamnachor

PORT HARCOURT— Troops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, successful conjunction with different information agencies, person attested 28 suspected lipid thieves and recovered 290,000 litres of stolen petroleum products.

The Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel, Jonah Danjuma, who disclosed this successful a connection successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said the occurrence was recorded successful its cognition successful states of the portion betwixt October 6 and 19.

The connection said: “The operations, conducted betwixt October 6 and 19, 2025, resulted successful the apprehension of 28 suspected lipid thieves, the deactivation of 4 amerciable refining sites, and seizure of implicit 290,000 litres of stolen products crossed the region.”

Danjuma said the operations were conducted successful parts of Rivers, Abia, Delta and Bayelsa states, adding that suspects were arrested successful each of the operations.

It read: “Several operations were conducted crossed Rivers State with tremendous successes recorded.

At Okrika successful Okrika Local Government Area. 2 woody boats were intercepted portion loading Premium Motor Spirit from a vas offloading the merchandise astatine a jetty. Additionally, 2 boats were intercepted astatine Okrika, with 1 loaded with implicit 33,000 litres of stolen products astatine a jetty successful Okrika. Relatedly, different woody vessel loaded with implicit 5,000 litres of stolen products was besides intercepted successful the area.

“In a related development, pursuing a tip-off connected amerciable lipid bunkering activities astir a pipeline aft Sterling Global Company Road, Akpabo, astatine Elele Alimini successful Emohua LGA, troops swung into enactment and impounded a tanker with registration fig Rivers JJN 287 ZU coming retired of the pipeline close of way.

“The conveyance was suspected to person loaded with 90,000 litres of stolen products from the site. Two suspects, the operator and his centrifugal boy, were taken into custody. Also, astatine Okolomade successful Abua/Odual LGA, implicit 2,600 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil were recovered.”

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