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THE Navy Command in Delta State (NNS DELTA) has arrested a badge containing 250,000 metric tons of petroleum products at Egborode, in Okpe local government council of Delta State, just as the Federal Government has seconded additional helicopter and other security equipment to the command in the state, to check the activities of pipeline vandals and alleged bunkerers in the Niger Delta.
WARRI - THE Navy Command in Delta State (NNS DELTA) has arrested a badge containing 250,000 metric tons of petroleum products at Egborode, in Okpe local government council of Delta State, just as the Federal Government has seconded additional helicopter and other security equipment to the command in the state, to check the activities of pipeline vandals and alleged bunkerers in the Niger Delta.
The Commanding Officer of NNS Delta, Navy Captain Mufutau Ajibade, who made this disclosure in Warri, yesterday, said his men arrested the badge at a remote community along the Benin-Warri axis after the hoodlums sighted their patrol boat and escaped.
The Navy boss who highlighted the efforts being made by the command to check bunkering activities and pipeline vandalisation in the Niger Delta, said: 'We have made so many successes in checking the activities of these criminals. The most recent of such success recorded was the arrest of a badge containing 250,000 metric tones of suspected PMS at Egborode in Okpe local government council of Delta State, during a patrol operation carried out by my men in some remote communities along the Warri-Benin axis.
'Though no arrest was made because they saw us when they were loading the PMS product and abandoned the badge and the equipment and took off. I can tell you we have been fighting them seriously and the situation has reduced drastically."