The Defence Headquarters on Friday mentioned troops within the South-South area recovered stolen crude oil and different associated merchandise valued at N2.6n.
In accordance with the DHQ, a complete of three,282,250 litres of stolen crude oil, 224,050 litres of illegally refined AGO, and 5,925 litres of DPK had been recovered between January 27 and February 16.
As well as, 131 dugout pits, 67 unlawful refining websites, and 125 storage tanks had been found and destroyed, whereas a complete of 104 suspected oil thieves had been apprehended.
This was contained in a press release by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba.
The assertion learn, “Within the SS, troops denied the oil theft of the estimated sum of N2,602,902,800.00 solely. Troops additionally arrested 104 perpetrators of oil theft.
“Troops within the Niger Delta space found and destroyed 131 dugout pits, 70 boats, 125 storage tanks, 12 bikes, 2 tricycles and 12 autos. Different gadgets recovered included 43 cooking ovens, 12 pump machines, 6 speedboats, one outboard engine, and 67 unlawful refining websites. Troops recovered 3,282,250 litres of stolen crude oil, 224,050 litres of illegally refined AGO, and 5,925 litres of DPK.”
The nation is grappling with a big problem of oil theft, inflicting substantial opposed impacts on financial progress, enterprise alternatives, and oil firms’ revenue margins.
In accordance with the Govt Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Ogbonnaya Orji greater than N4.3tn price of crude oil was stolen in 7,143 pipeline vandalism instances inside 5 years.
Buba additionally mentioned a complete of 254 terrorists had been killed, whereas 264 had been arrested.
He mentioned, “Throughout the week underneath evaluation troops recorded the next: troops neutralised 254 and arrested 264. Troops additionally rescued 73 kidnapped hostages.
“Moreover, troops recovered 378 assorted weapons and 4,705 assorted ammunition. The breakdown as follows: 131 AK47 rifles, 2 FN rifles, 2 G3 rifle, 3 SMGs, 69 regionally fabricated weapons, 57 pump motion weapons, 7 pistols, 14 regionally fabricated pistols, 5 revolver rifles, 4 revolver pistols, 45 Dane weapons, 4 regionally made single barrel, and a couple of hand grenades, 7 RPG Launchers, one RPG bomb, one regionally made double barrel gun, 17 Dane gun double barrel and IEDs.
“Others are 2,444 rounds of seven.62mm particular ammo, 1,712 rounds of seven.62mm NATO, 80 rounds of 9mm ammo, 61 rounds of 5.45 x 39mm ammo, 6 rounds of 0.44-inch ammo, 415 stay cartridges, 10 empty instances of cartridges, 11 magazines, 18 autos, 40 bikes, 74 cell phones, 4 baofeng radios and the sum of N748,430.00 amongst different gadgets.”
