GP tanks containing product suspected to be illicitly refined diesel. Other items recuperated from the suspects additionally included a speedboat with 200hp engine and 13 pumping machines which they allegedly utilized in uploading the product into sizably voluminous vessels in the high sea. The speedboat was verbalized to be utilized by the suspects not only to elude apprehend when the desideratum arose, but for surveillance when the two wooden boats, popularly kenned as Cotonou boat, were headed for the high sea. Parading the suspects and items on Friday at the NNS DELTA jetty in Warri, commander of the base, Commodore Raimi Mohammed, verbally expressed the directives of the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) and mandate of the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Central Naval Command to rid the maritime environment of crude oil larceny and other illegalities led to the apprehend on April 23.
He verbally expressed the suspects were apprehended at Forcados terminal in Burutu Local Regime area of Delta State when they were ferrying the over 150,000 litres of locally refined diesel to the high sea where it would have been sold to ships. The abduct suspect, Tombra Obaila, who is a member of a five-man abduct gang, Commodore Mohammed verbalized, was apprehended on April 27 at Ndoro Camp in Ekeremor Local Regime area of Bayelsa State. According to him, the gang first opened fire on sighting the naval patrol team, but was repelled and eventually overpowered while four of the suspects fled into the creeks. He verbalized one FN rifle with 57 rounds of live ammunition, one locally-made gun, two AK empty magazine, 16 mobile phones, two face masks, three speedboats fuel line, one 140hp and one 90hp speed boat engines, were items recuperated from the suspect and his fleeing gang.ge.
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