The Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Commodore Sanusi Ibrahim, disclosed this through the Base Intelligence Officer, Lt.-Cdr. Sunday Katuka. Journalists were conducted round a warehouse at Ogbogoro community in Port Harcourt, where the diesel was stored. Ibrahim said that naval officers raided the warehouse following a tip off, and arrested the five men, while 15 other suspects fled the scene.
He said: “Following intelligence tipoff, naval troops immediately raided a warehouse used by suspected oil thieves to store illegally refined petroleum products believed to have been stolen from pipelines. “On arrival at the site, we found several storage compartments with petroleum products suspected to be Automated Gas Oil (AGO) popularly known as diesel.
“The diesel was stored in more than 20 compartments and large polythene bags, and each compartment had about 100 storage drums, each containing 350 litres of illegally refined diesel. “The drums and polythene bags contained an estimate of about one million litres of stolen diesel.” Ibrahim said that investigations were on to identify the sources of the diesel and those who patronise the warehouse. The commander also called on the authorities to put in place a policy to ensure that warehouses were not abandoned but leased for legitimate businesses.
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