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From Joseph Obukata, Warri
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) Commandant General Special Intelligence Squad, (CGSIS), has uncovered a spot where tankers secretly load petroleum products for supply to end users.
The spot was discovered following credible intelligence at Odorubu waterside in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State.
About six tankers and articulated trucks loaded with stolen and illegally refined petroleum products suspected to be automated gasoline oil (AGO) were discovered in the scene and impounded.
Confirming this, Delta Command’s Public Relations Officer, Dsc Emeka Peters Okwechime, said that upon sighting the men of the C.G.S.I.S, the vandals had used a 120liters capacity tanker to barricade the only road leading to the illegal loading point to prevent men of the NSCDC from gaining access to the illegal loading point.
He disclosed that determined to gain access into the loading point, men of the C.G.S.I.S, had engaged the services of about 6 truck drivers, 2 auto electricians and a tow truck, which towed away the heavily loaded 120liters capacity truck used by the crude oil thieves to barricade the road leading to illegal loading point.
In a related development, four suspects were arrested in Warri with suspected stolen diesel barely 24hours of the arrival of men of the CGSIS in the state.
Okwechime said that the suspects were arrested with a toyota camry blue with Registration Number BMA 786 TN and a Toyota sienna with Registration Number KSF 107 CD loaded with illegally refined petroleum product suspected to be AGO concealed in a 25liter polythene sacks numbering about 300 sacks.
The name of the suspects were given as; Clement Mike (M) 34years, Tobore Morgan (M) 39years, others are Jeff Oluchi (M) 29years at large and Chinwe Ikpeamachukwu (F) 40years.
The suspects are currently undergoing investigation and will be charged to court accordingly to serve as deterrent to others, Okwechime further said.
