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The Nigerian Navy on Friday handed over four suspected oil thieves to the Lagos State Police Command.
At the handover of the suspects to the state police headquarters in Ikeja, NNS Beecroft Commander Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga stated that the suspects were apprehended by Nigerian Navy personnel stationed at FOB Lekki after locals raised the alarm after hearing gunshots from the water.
Oguntuga stated that the men were accompanying a sizable wooden boat carrying 11,000 litres of crude oil that they were rumoured to be stealing.
Responding, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, said, “We will take in the suspects, we will take in the exhibits and we’ll work with the Navy to get to the root of this and to ensure that justice is done.”
In a related development, the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta, on Friday, handed over an impounded vessel, MT TECHNE, with alleged stolen crude oil worth 1,905,836 MT to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Commander, NNS Delta, Commodore Chindo Yahaya, represented by the Executive Officer, Capt. Solomon Paul, handed over the vessel to the EFCC at the NNS Delta Jetty in Warri, Delta State.
He told journalists at the brief ceremony that the vessel was impounded over illegal bunkering on April 25, 2017.
He further explained that “preliminary investigation report on the arrest of the vessel revealed that at the time of arrest, the vessel had about 1,905,836MT of alleged stolen crude oil”.
A representative of the EFCC, Port-Harcourt Office, Lawan Ado, who took delivery of the vessel, promptly handed it over to Adetokunbor Arowojolu, a representative of Showboy Integrated Company Limited, the buyer of the vessel.
Speaking with newsmen, Ado said after a successful investigation, the EFCC secured the forfeiture.
“We auctioned it to Showboy Integrated Company Limited, the buyer”, he said
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