Oil burglary: Naval force gives up suspects, vessel in Lagos, Delta

The Lagos State Police Command received four alleged oil thieves on Saturday from the Nigerian Navy.

During the handing over of the suspects at the state police headquarters in Ikeja, the Commander of the NNS Beecroft, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, stated that the suspects were arrested by men of the Nigerian Navy stationed at FOB Lekki after residents raised the alarm following gunshots from the waterside.

Oguntuga noticed that the men were essential for an escort of an enormous wooden boat passing 11,000 liters of unrefined petroleum thought on to have been taken by the gathering.

Answering, the state Chief of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, said, “We will take in the suspects, we will take in the shows and we’ll work with the Naval force to get to the base of this and to guarantee that equity is finished.”

In a related development, the Nigerian Navy Ship NNS Delta handed over the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday an impounded vessel, MT TECHNE, with alleged stolen crude oil worth 1,905,836 MT.

Capt. Capt. Capt. Chindo Yahaya, the Executive Officer, represents the NNS Delta Commander, Commodore Chindo Yahaya. Solomon Paul, gave over the vessel to the EFCC at the NNS Delta Wharf in Warri, Delta State.

He told writers at the short service that the vessel was seized over unlawful bunkering on

He further made sense of that “fundamental examination report on the capture of the vessel uncovered that at the hour of capture, the vessel had around 1,905,836MT of supposed taken unrefined petroleum”.

A delegate of the EFCC, Port-Harcourt Office, Lawan Ado, who took conveyance of the vessel, instantly gave it over to Adetokunbor Arowojolu, a delegate of Showboy Coordinated Organization Restricted, the purchaser of the vessel.

Talking with newsmen, Ado said after an effective examination, the EFCC got the relinquishment.

He stated, “We auctioned it to the buyer, Showboy Integrated Company Limited.”