Nigerian Navy sustains onslaught on economic saboteurs, dismantles black market fuel supply ring in Rivers

The Nigerian Navy Unit and Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, nether Operation Delta Sentinel, connected Friday dismantled a black-market substance ringing wrong the Okrika wide country successful Rivers State during an anti-crude lipid theft patrol.

A connection signed by Captain Abiodun Folorunsho, Director of Naval Information, said the cognition is portion of the Navy’s ongoing onslaught against economical saboteurs and amerciable petroleum networks.

The cognition reportedly led to the find of a large retention hub linked to the organisation of suspected illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, successful Rivers State.

“During the operation, naval unit uncovered a warehouse located astir Okochiri Kingdom successful Okrika Local Government Area containing 410 drums cumulatively laden with astir 123,000 litres of merchandise suspected to beryllium illegally refined AGO,” the connection said.

It stated that a preliminary appraisal indicated that the products were apt transported from amerciable refining locations extracurricular the assemblage and stockpiled successful the warehouse for onward organisation done illicit proviso networks.

The state...