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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
A pro-democracy and development group, Niger-Delta Development Initiative (NDDI), has lauded the Nigerian Navy for its efforts in tackling the oil bunkering in the Niger Delta.
The group, in a statement by its president, Rev. Sam Smith Tonye, stated that the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, since assumption of office has been unrelenting in the war against oil theft.
It also commended the CNS “for helping to reduce to barest minimal level, incidents of oil theft in the Niger Delta and protecting the nation’s coastal waters from external enemies who come in to steal the nation’s wealth regularly”.
The group, while decrying the harm done to the country’s economy by the proliferation of pirates and illegal oil merchants in Niger Delta, expressed delight that the naval chief is tackling them decisively.
“The various efforts and machineries put in place by Ogalla in combating crimes and criminality around the seas and nation’s waterways can not be ignored.
” The measures put in place to check the activities of those pirates and bunkers is seriously paying off. The top merchants and their Abuja collaborators now know it’s no longer business as usual”, it stated.
