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From Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Nigerian Air Force(NAF), said it’s Air Component of Operation Delta Safe, have destroyed four illegal oil refining sites at Krakama and Temakiri in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet who made this known said the operation is
In continuation of efforts to reduce to the barest minimum the activities of crude oil thieves and oil pipeline vandals.
Gabkwet, in a statement, said Both locations are barely 50 km Southwest of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
He said At both Krakrama and Temakiri, active illegal oil refining sites were observed with Cotonou Boats sighted nearby with the probable intent to illegally siphon crude oil from the sites. The 2 Illegal sites, as well as the boats were subsequently struck, engulfed in flames and destroyed. The armed reconnaissance was also extended to Abisse and Omoma, but only abandoned illegal refining sites were observed.
Efforts to rid the Niger Delta region of the activities of oil thieves by the NAF and other security agencies remain on course and will continue until total success is achieved.
