Twenty-eight oil thieves including a Ghanian were on Sunday arrested by the Joint (Military) Task Force in the Niger Delta, code named Operation Pulo Shield.
Also intercepted by the JTF were two bunkering vessels.
According to the JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the suspects were arrested over alleged illegal lifting of crude oil and illegally distilled Automated Gas Oil (diesel).
The JTF’s feat is coming after a week-long operation in Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta and Edo states.
Mr. Nwachukwu disclosed that in Bayelsa, troops of 343 Artillery Regiment deployed in the creeks, uncovered a hose illegally connected from Nigerian Agip Oil Company’s pipeline to an illegal oil dump.
He said the oil dump was serving an illegal oil distillation camp containing 15 large storage tanks at Oyeregbene community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.
The Commander urged the multinational oil company in Brass to carry out repairs on the breached point.
The He added that the vessel, christened MILANDROS, was intercepted around the West Bank of Bonny anchorage, where a six inch diameter hose over a distance of 1,000 metres from the vessel had been connected to the pipeline.
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