The group also decried the call for the sack of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, by some interest groups.
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Lawan said this Friday in his opening remarks when President Muhammadu Buhari appeared to present 2023 budget to the joint session of National Assembly .
Those, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in separate interviews, said they incurred great losses in the raid.
The state Commandant of the corps, Iskilu Akinsanya, disclosed to newsmen on Friday in Asaba.
Wike made the appeal on Monday when participants of the Naval Warfare College Course 4 paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this while giving update on the Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between July 9 and 16 at a news conference Thursday in Abuja.
Two other fraudsters were also convicted and sentenced to other jail terms by Justice H.I.O. Oshomah of the same court.
Capt. Suleiman Olorundare, the Commanding Officer of the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base in Bonny, Rivers, handed over the crewmen to the anti-graft agency in Bony after parading them before newsmen.
Others were Chuks Isiwepkweni, Friday Nchikpa, Peter Bayo, Ubom Amos, Zuopamo Embiowei, Olabamerun Owolemi, Adams Husseini, Ebisingha Timmy and Godwin Oputeh, MV Long Island and their companies, Afa Global Impex Services Limited and GFL Marine Service Limited
He said: “On October 20, we got intelligence report about an illegal bunkering activity at a private jetty situated opposite the busy Slaughter market around Trans-Woji area in Port Harcourt
The accused persons were allegedly arrested in the Bonny waters, River State sometime in 2014 with 500,000 litres of stolen petroleum product suspected to be Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel
Although the men tried to deny the allegation, some of the suspected oil thieves they had been dealing with presented banks’ tellers used in lodging money into the accounts of the policemen
He said he had the support of the chiefs and traditional rulers in his crusade to rid the area of the menace
“This is a one-man crusade to completely stop this menace,” he said
SPDC’s spokesperson, Joseph Obari, told News Agency of Nigeria that oil thieves were responsible for 80 per cent of the oil spills in Bayelsa State
A statement by Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, the Media Coordination of the JTF in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said the anti-oil theft raids were conducted from February 11 to 18
According to him, the EFCC must act in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies to achieve its objective
Effedua, who made this known when he presented the suspects to newsmen, said they were arrested during a routine patrol of the Nkpodiagha Creek, Aker Base, Port Harcourt
A statement by the Central Naval Command said the captain of the vessel could not tender relevant documents when he was apprehended
He added: “Troops of the 146 Battalion of Sector 2 of the JTF deployed in Bonny Island intercepted the suspects on the Trans-Niger Pipeline where PPMC and SPDC pipelines are laid
One of the charges reads: “That you Abu Ali Jibia, Akume Surprise, Boglo Babatunde, Umar Mohammed, Nafiu Hussain, Ibrahim Yakubu, Calvin Ajike, Alhassan Oseni, Kenneth Osei, Korlee Uebari, Habourpoint Nigeria Limited, Chidodo Access Oil & Gas Limited and Millennium Jetty and Marine Services Limited on or about the 22nd day of May, 2013 at Liberty Jetty, Marina, Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria conspired to commit a felony to wit: carry out an act for which a license is required under the Petroleum Act without lawful authority or appropriate licence contrary to section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap 77, Laws of the Federation 1990