Navy foils diesel smuggling attempt, intercepts boat with 4,000 litres of AGO

…Warns lipid thieves to desist oregon look afloat wrath of the law

By Evelyn Usman

The Nigerian Navy Ship NNS Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos, has foiled an effort to smuggle 4,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) suspected to person been siphoned astir the approaches to the Commodore Pool country adjacent Atlas Cove, Lagos.

Consequently, a fibre vessel conveying the suspected smuggled merchandise was intercepted.

Briefing journalists yesterday, during the handover of the recovered AGO to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ,NSCDC astatine NNS Beecroft, the Base Commander, Commodore Paul Nimmyel, described the seizure arsenic portion of the efforts of the Nigerian Navy to curtail economical sabotage and heighten maritime information wrong Lagos State and its coastal communities.

Represented by the Executive Officer, NNS Beecroft, Captain Idongesit Udoessien, helium explained that the cognition was conducted successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, October 11, 2025, done the effectual deployment of the Nigerian Navy’s Falcon Eye Maritime Domain Awareness System.

According to him, “The patrol squad stationed astatine Tarkwa Bay detected and swiftly intercepted the fibre vessel aft tracking its suspicious question wrong the Lagos channel. On sighting our patrol team, the suspects abandoned the vessel and fled, leaving down the merchandise suspected to beryllium illegally refined AGO.”

He added that the confiscated merchandise had been handed implicit to the NSCDC, Lagos State Command, represented by Superintendent Amoo Kehinde, for further probe and indispensable action.

Captain Udoessien noted that the palmy interception underscored the strategical directive of the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, aimed astatine maintaining a credible beingness crossed Lagos waterways and adjoining creeks to stamp retired each forms of maritime transgression and economical sabotage.

“This cognition is simply a wide awesome to perpetrators of maritime offenses that NNS Beecroft volition not relent successful its efforts. We volition proceed to intensify surveillance, patrols, and intelligence-driven operations to contradict criminals immoderate state to run wrong Lagos waters,” helium warned.

He assured that the Nigerian Navy remained resolute successful its committedness to safeguarding the nation’s maritime situation for morganatic socio-economic activities to thrive.

Superintendent Amoo Kehinde, who led the NSCDC officers, said probe would proceed from wherever the Navy stopped.

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