The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC says the force has observed a significant reduction in the activities of vandals of petroleum products in the country particularly in the Niger Delta region.

A statement from the Delta State Command of the Civil Defence Corps, attributes the achievement to the proactive measures taken in recent times by the Commandant General Dr. Abubakar Audi-Ahmed and the leadership at the state command led by Commandant Iskilu Akinsanya.

In the report, the spokesman of the state command of the NSCDC, Dsc Emeka-Peters Okwechime, notes that the development was an improvement on an earlier report by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company limited, which had pegged the amount of crude oil theft in 2021 at about two hundred thousand barrels per day.

The statement also points that the Nigeria Upstream Regulatory Commission NUPRC, had estimated the cost of the volume of stolen crude oil at over three billion naira as at April 2022.

It adds that the recently inaugurated Commandant General Special Intelligence Squad was instrumental to the achievements recorded, and stresses the unit has clamped down on illegal oil dumpsites, leading to the arrest of suspects and the seizure of several trucks conveying the products.

The statement indicates that preliminary investigation and confessional remarks by the suspects have revealed the identities of some of their sponsors, saying the names of perpetuators would be made public as a deterrent to others at the end of the investigation.

Oghenero Eghweree

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