Nigerian navy tightens operations across creek corridors, discovers illegal fuel cache

The Nigerian Navy says it has continued to intensify unit connected amerciable petroleum networks operating wrong the Niger Delta pursuing the find of a concealed substance stockpile on the Rivers–Bayelsa borderline corridor.

The discovery, according to connection signed by Captain Abiodun Folorunsho, Director of Naval Information, was made during ongoing operations nether Operation Delta Sentinel by unit of Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, SOROH, aft quality reports indicated suspicious question of illegally refined petroleum products astir Okarki Community waterside successful Abua-Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State.

On deployment to the area, the connection said that naval unit employed aerial surveillance, which exposed aggregate sacks concealed wrong dense vegetation on the creek environment. Further exploitation of the determination led to the betterment of astir 3,800 litres of merchandise suspected to beryllium illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, stored successful 38 sacks.

He said the cognition highlights the increasing reliance of amerciable substance networks connected isolated creek corridors and concealed transit points ...