19 suspects arrested as NSCDC busts unlawful oil storage website in Lagos

19 suspected members of the syndicate, amongst who was a feminine, have been arrested on the scene.

Eighty one (81) vans used to convey the merchandise to completely different elements of the South West area have been recovered, together with 9 buses.

As well as, 140 drums containing illegally refined AGO, 15 energy producing units, 12 pumping machines, 25 floor tanks, N4 million money saved in one of many syndicate’s vehicles, have been recovered.

Explaining how the syndicate was smashed, spokesman for the NSCDC, Assistant Superintendent of Corps, ASCI Abolurin  Olumide, stated the Commandant Basic Particular Intelligence Squad stormed Etal Avenue, off Kudirat, Abiola approach, Oregun in Ikeja space of  Lagos State, at about 12.18 am on Monday, Could 30, following intelligence report on the  unlawful oil storage website.

“The Commandant Basic’s Particular Intelligence Squad, inaugurated in direction of the top  of  yr 2021, on the NSCDC nationwide headquarters  in Abuja, can also be one of many multi – dimensional approaches being deployed by the Commandant Basic, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, to squash the desecrating actions of oil pipeline vandals and the assymetric struggle the nation isfaced with at the moment,” he acknowledged.

“Not too long ago, he reiterated his vow to stamp out oil pipeline vandalism, unlawful oil bunkering, unlawful dealings in petroleum merchandise, unlawful mining of stable and pure minerals and different disheartening types of financial sabotage, being perpetrated by legal components, in our pricey nation.

Upon bursting the unlawful oil website, it was found that petroleum merchandise have been being illegally saved and refined.

“The Squad was instantly re-enforced by the Anti-vandal staff of the Lagos State Command, on the swift orders of the Commandant, Lagos State Command, Commandant Eweka Okoro, who directed that the arrested suspects be introduced for ample interrogation and investigation, within the Intelligence and Investigation, INT Division, on the State Command Headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, earlier than additional authorized motion shall be taken on the matter

“The Anti-vandal unit of the Lagos State  Commas was additionally  directed by the Commandant, to take full cost of the unlawful oil website instantly, in order to forestall any additional untoward exercise by these financial saboteurs of our collective commonwealth”

Whereas reiteratimg alt=’19 suspects arrested as NSCDC busts unlawful oil storage website in Lagos ‘ class=’img-responsive text-center’ model=’margin: auto;’ Okoro’s dedication  to the imaginative and prescient and mission of the Commandant Basic, the previous, in response to him, warned oil thieves within the state to desist from  inimical act able to sabotaging the nation’s economic system “with the disturbing untoward experiences it may carry upon the strange residents of our nation.”

He warned that failure of  unrepentant vandals and oil thieves to desist from the act shall be meted with stiffer actions from the Command.