NATFORCE arrests man with 167 drums of illegal crude Nigerian Tribune 08.Oct.2014 The National Task Force against illegal importation, smuggling of goods and small arms (NATFORCE), on Monday, recorded another success in the ongoing war against oil theft in the Niger Delta region, arresting a man with 167 drums allegedly loaded with illegal crude oil. The drums, all intercepted at Nonwa, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State, were said you have been stashed in a trailer with registration number Gombe XA 730 FKY, while some were loaded in a white J5 bus with registration number, Lagos LW605 AAA. NATFORCE Commander in Eleme, Mr Gladstone Ezekiel, made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, adding that the drivers of the two vehicles escaped, while the owner of the product, known simply as Mr Wilson from Jos, Plateau State, had been taken into detention by the Joint Task Force (JTF). He said the product could not be burnt at the scene of the arrest because “it was parked directly under a high tension cable, which could cause serious damage, if set on fire.” Ezekiel further said that, though a towing van was dispatched to tow the trailer to the second Amphibious Brigade at Bori Camp, “The van developed a fault and had to be returned to Ishiokpo, where it was brought.” The Rivers State chairman of NATFORCE, Mr Emenike Ndubuisi, who confirmed the incident, said the task force would do everything legally possible to ensure that oil theft in the state was eliminated. We will go after oil criminals in the state and ensure that we smoke them out of business. We have had a lot of such cases in the past and the culprits have always been sent to the appropriate security agency for prosecution,” he said. He alleged that oil theft thrives in the Niger Delta region because some politicians encourage it as “a way of empowering jobless youths, who they use as machineries for their political interest.”
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:46:24 +0000
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