No fewer than nine suspected oil thieves and operators of illegal crude oil refining camps have been arrested in the last one week as the Nigerian Navy embarked on Operation Water Sweet II in Delta state.
Briefing journalists on the outcome of the operation at the Nigerian Navy Ship Delta base in Warri, the Flag Officer Commanding of the Central Naval Command, Real Admiral Mohammed Garba, said not less than 42 illegal refining camps, about 3,000 metric tons of suspected stolen crude oil and 1,000 metric tons of illegally refined diesel oil, were destroyed during the operation.
The naval chief, who was accompanied by the outgoing Commander of the NNS Delta, Commodore Joseph Dzunve, Commodore Ibrahim Dewu, and other officers from the Central Naval Command headquarters, said the operation would be continuous so that the criminal activities could be kept at bay.
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