LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it arrested ten suspects involved in illegal oil bunkering and vandalism in Kryo Community near Alakiri waterways in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State.
According to the Corps, of the ten suspects, five were nab by the 29 Battalion Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, with 44 metal pipes, four cylinders, and exhibits and handed over to NSCDC Rivers State Command, in Port Harcourt.
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The other five suspects were arrested for alleged illegal bunkering by soldiers of the 6 Division Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, and handed over to the NSCDC for further investigation.
NSCDC Commandant in the State, Basil Igwebueze, disclosed this while parading the suspects at the Command’s Headquarters in Port Harcourt, earlier today.
Igwebueze, also disclosed that NSCDC operatives on routine patrol impounded nine vehicles abandoned by suspects who are on the Command’s trail along the Trans-Amadi axis of Port Harcourt.
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“The following five suspects: Aniebiet Pascal, 22; Nnadi Ogbonn, 23; Ifeayin Delight, 25; Sunday Benjamin, 22; and Okechukwu Finbar, 20 were apprehended by 29 Battalion Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, with 44 metal pipes, four Cylinders containing Nitrogen Gas, one wooden boat with 25 horsepower engine along Kryo Community near Alakiri waterways in Okrika LGA of the State,” he stated.
While noting that a thorough investigation has commenced, the commanded said the suspects would be charged to Court, while the products and means of conveyance would be forfeited and proceeds remitted into the Federal Government coffer.
The commandant warned those he described as ‘unrepentant’ illegal oil thieves to turn over a new leaf or be ready to face the full wrath of the law.
Igwebueze reiterated the corps’ willingness to collaborate with sister security agencies, stressing that the NSCDC efficiently safeguard all critical national assets and Infrastructures in the State.
