The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Rivers State Command has arrested three suspected oil thieves with one large wooden boat and two vehicles laden with illegally refined petroleum products.
Parading the suspects at the Ogbogoro Exhibit Jetty in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, the State Commandant, Michael Ogar says following the dissolution and reconstitution of the Anti-vandal Unit across the federation, the Rivers State Command with a renewed vigour impounded a large wooden boat laden with about 24,000 litres of illegally refined petroleum products- Dual Purpose Kerosene, DPK.
He explained that the suspects loaded the illegally refined petroleum products in cellophane and concealed them in sack bags
