Security Operatives Intercept Oil Theft Syndicates In Delta Community

Some oil theft syndicates were reportedly intercepted on Monday (today) in Oporoza, a community in Delta state.

Naija News understands that the syndicates were apprehended by Nigerian security operatives monitoring the area.

The development is coming barely a month after former Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, was lampooned by the Nigerian Navy over what they described as an unguarded statement on the oil theft in the South-South region.

It could be recalled that Dokubo, speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu weeks ago, accused the military high command of involvement in oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta region.

He argued that average citizens lack the resources and technology needed for oil bunkering, particularly the complex process of connecting pipes directly to oil wells to extract crude oil.

“The military is at the centre of oil theft, and we have to make this very clear to the Nigerian public that 99 percent of oil theft can be traced to the Nigerian military, the Army, and the Navy especially,” Dokubo had said.

But in a swift reaction, the spokesman of the Nigerian Navy, Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, asked Dokubo to produce the names of officers involved in crude oil theft.

Speaking with Daily Trust, he described the allegation as “spurious and unguarded,” adding that oil thieves were angry because troops of the Nigerian Navy and the entire military have continued to deny them avenues to sabotage the economy through ongoing “Operation DAKATAR DA BARAWO.”