Otuaro, who stated this when the joint monitoring team led by Major General Jamil Jimoh paid him a courtesy visit at the PAP Office in Abuja, on Thursday, noted that the joint monitoring team deserved support towards reducing the menace of illegal oil bunkering, and attacks on critical oil assets.
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The arrests were made as it continued its raid on illegal refineries in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State.
It said the crew comprised one Ghanaian and 12 Nigerians on board the Ghanaian owned and registered vessel known as Motor Tanker SWEET MIRI.
The award was conferred on him on Saturday.
The Commander of Operation Delta State, Rear Admiral John Okeke, who assumed duty on Thursday, revealed this.
IGP Egbetokun said this on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of a conference with Strategic Police Managers.
Commodore Desmond Igbo, Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, disclosed this on Tuesday, in Port Harcourt.
The Nigeria Army on Wednesday confirmed it cracked down on illegal refineries in Imo and Delta State with the seizure of several litres of illegally refined petroleum products.
The Ijaw Elders Forum, a coalition of Ijaw groups, has written to President Bola Tinubu to demand a review of procedures in disposal of vessels and trucks seized for complicity in oil theft.
The Navy said this followed the discovery that the vessel’s operation was legitimate and received extant approvals.
Dumebi Kachikwu, a former presidential candidate of the Action Democratic Congress, has urged the Federal Government to set up an investigation panel over an alleged oil theft involving the Nigerian Navy.
The Nigeria Navy in Port Harcourt, Rivers State says it has uncovered a huge mechanism installed in the Oil Mining Lease 18 wellhead being used to siphon crude oil into waiting barges.
Dokubo, had on Friday, alleged that the bulk cases of oil theft recorded in the oil-rich region were traceable to the Nigerian Army and Navy.
This revelation was made by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in an update statement on Sunday.
The Chairman of the Panel, retired Major General Barry Ndiomu, made the call for stiffer penalties on Tuesday in Abuja.
Senate had on April 14, 2022, constituted a 13-member Ad Hoc Committee on Oil Lifting, Theft and the impact on Petroleum Production and Oil Revenues under the chairmanship of Senator Akpan Bassey.
Illegal oil tapping that Nigeria’s security agencies could not detect and put a stop to for years, took Government Epkemupolo, better known as Tompolo, less than a month to detect. All those in charge of our security should actually bury their heads in shame. Nigeria has become a laughing stock in the world. Those who are being paid to protect us and our national assets are complicit in the stealing and ruination of the country. Nigeria is an oil-producing nation but the discovery of crude oil has become a curse for Nigeria. In spite of the rise in the price of crude oil in the international market, with most oil-producing countries smiling to the banks, Nigeria is losing money on all fronts. We have been consistently losing money from crude oil sales as we could not meet up with our crude oil production quota allocated to us by OPEC, which we could have sold in the international market due to large-scale stealing. Worse, the citizens are being made to pay more due to the fact that we lack the capacity to refine a fraction of what we produce for domestic consumption due to comatose refineries. We have been told again that we should expect more than a 100 per cent increase in the prices of refined petroleum products when the subsidy on petrol is completely removed next year.
The leadership of the oil workers’ union stated this when it appeared before the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Wednesday.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan made the call at a meeting in Abuja Monday with heads of security agencies in the country.
Kyari stated this at the weekly Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Media Team on Tuesday in Abuja.