The Nigerian Navy has arrested seven persons for oil theft in the Escravos axis of Delta State.
The Director of Information of the Nigerian Navy, Commodore Christian Ezekobe, said in a statement on Saturday that six of the suspects were arrested during a raid by a team from the Operations Base, Escravos at Sara Creek, Delta State on September 7, 2016.
He said the patrol team destroyed three ‘Cotonou boats’ laden with stolen crude oil.
The statement added that the patrol team also recovered ‘‘one speed boat, a Cotonou boat carrying 15×10,000 litres and 2 x 5000 liters GP tanks laden with illegally refined automotive gas oil” from the suspected oil thieves.
Also said to have been recovered by the patrol team were three outboard engines and four pumping machines.
Ezekobe noted that the oil was suspected to have been illegally refined at Ogboro Creek, Warri South Local Government Area.
He also said that another patrol team deployed by the FOB Escravos destroyed an illegal refinery and arrested one Endurance (surname withheld) for alleged oil theft at Ekpemu Creek in Warri South West Local Government Area.
According to him, the Navy recovered two phones, a pumping machine and hoses from the suspects.
Ezekobe, who said that the Navy would hand over the suspects to the police for prosecution, restated the commitment of the Navy to carrying out its statutory responsibility of protecting the nation’s economic assets.
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