Nigerian Navy has impounded a wooden boat loaded with 27 jerrycans of stolen Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise called petrol from suspected pipeline vandals at Atlas Cove area of Lagos. The vandals abandoned the wooden boat on sighting the naval men and fled into the bush.
The operation, which was led by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, was carried out at Ilado 1, Akaraba, Robot, Ilashe and Abule Glass, which are between Takwa Bay and Badagry creeks. The Commander, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Abraham Adaji, told journalists that Navy was determined to rid the country’s waterways of oil thieves and vandals. He said: “All measures are being explored to ensure pipeline vandalism for crude oil theft comes to an end.
“One of the measures the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is also exploring is partnership with local authorities that are closest to where these assets are and it is in that sense that we have the men of the Kings Guard. “They are men with some roots in the community who live in the area and they will be the first to know if anything is going on.
These men have just been brought on board to work with other security agencies mainly to provide intelligence and presence which has a very significant deterrence value.”
