10 Arrested for Trying to Steal Raw crude oil in Delta

No fewer than 10 suspected oil thieves on board MT TECNCE Vessel have being nabbed by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS), Delta.

 Ibrahim Dewu, the Commander of NNS Delta, stated this while parading the suspects at Forcados River, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta state on Wednesday.

The 10 suspects include a Nigerian, two Pakistanis, three Ghanaians, one Indonesian, one Beninois and two Ukrainians.

Dewu said that the suspects were caught in the early hours of Tuesday while siphoning crude oil into the vessel from Afremo, a platform  which is a loading jacket belonging to the Shell Petroleum and Development Company (SPDC) in Forcados Rivers.

He revealed that they siphoned not less than 2000 metric tonnes of crude oil from the loading jacket before they were caught.