Parading the suspects at the Ogbogoro Exhibit Jetty in Obio
Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, the State Commandant, Michael Ogar
says following the dissolution and reconstitution of the Anti-vandal Unit
across the federation, the Rivers State Command with a renewed vigour impounded
a large wooden boat laden with about 24,000 litres of illegally refined
petroleum products- Dual Purpose Kerosene, (DPK).
He explained that the suspects loaded the illegally refined
petroleum products in cellophane and concealed them in sack bags.
The NSCDC State Commandant noted that the products were
carefully arranged in the wooden boat such that a layman would assume it to be
a passenger boat but based on sustained intelligence the suspects: William Chen
(29) male and Emmanuel Uriah (27) male were tactically double-crossed and
arrested by the Corps’ Marine Team along Isaka creek off the new Calabar River
axis in Rivers State.
In another development, the Land Patrol Team arrested one
Anayo Obasi, aged 38, male with a yellow and lemon-coloured minibus laden with
about 1,500 litres of illegally refined automotive gas oil (AGO) concealed in
cellophane.
Commandant Ogar added that another Toyota Camry Car laden
with about 1,500 litres of illegally refined automotive gas Oil (AGO) was
impounded at Abonnema Wharf by UTC junction in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State
capital.
The Rivers NSCDC Boss while affirming that the suspects will
be charged to court, calls on the public to provide the Command with credible
and actionable Intelligence that would enhance the Command to clamp down on oil
thieves in the State.