Defence Headquarters said troops of Operation DELTA SAFE in the last two weeks discovered and immobilized a total of 41 illegal refining sites, 33 ovens, 24 cooking pots/boilers, 8 cooling systems, 32 reservoirs, 43 large dugout pits and 93 storage tanks.
Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko stated this on Thursday at a press briefing on Armed Forces of Nigeria’s military operations held at Defence Headquarters’ new conference room.
Onyeuko said a total of 795,500 jlitres of illegally refined AGO; 60,000 litres of DPK and six million, three hundred and ninety-five thousand, four hundred and twenty litres (6,395,420ltrs) of stolen crude were recovered in the course of the operations.
He added that 26 criminal elements associated with pipeline vandalism, piracy, illegal oil bunkering and armed robbery were arrested within the period.
Onyeuko said the troops also recovered a total of 27 assorted arms and 586 rounds of assorted ammunition in the course of the operations.
He said the troops sustained the land, maritime and air operations to contain the illegal oil production as well as forestall activities of vandals and other economic saboteurs in the South – South Zone.
He said in the course of these operations, troops discovered and deactivated illegal oil refining/bunkering sites, arrested some criminal elements as well as recovered arms and ammunition and several other items.
Onyeuko said these feats were recorded at villages, towns and creeks in Egbema, Port Harcourt, Emuoha, Andoni, Onne, Obiakpo, Isiokpo, Akuku-Toru and Okrika Local Government Areas of Rivers State.
He said in Delta State, some feats were recorded at different locations in Warri South, Warri South West, Ovwie, Warri North and Isoko North Local Government Areas.
Other locations include, he said, included Ohaji Local Government Area of Imo, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State and Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State.
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