NMDPRA, EFCC raid illegal Chinese-run refinery in Ogun

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, alongside operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, connected Wednesday stormed an amerciable refinery situated successful Ogere-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The associated inspection followed quality that exposed what investigators described arsenic a well-fenced, crude but technically blase refinery occupying implicit 3 hectares of land.

DAILY POST, which joined the inspection team, observed underground tanks believed to person been utilized for heating and processing sludge oil, discarded products from refining, and substances suspected to beryllium Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, different known arsenic diesel.

During the inspection, NMDPRA officials sealed the facility.

Speaking with newsmen, Ogun State Coordinator of NMDPRA, Dr Atilola Akinyemi, said the installation was a implicit illegality with nary licence from immoderate regulatory authority.

He said the underground retention installation down the tract has an estimated capableness of much than 90,000 litres, with underground heating systems, h2o hydrants for cooling, locally fabricated tanks and silos for separation.

"This installation you spot present is precise crude and wholly illegal. This is not a refinery by immoderate standard. It does not person a licence from immoderate regulatory authorization and its operations are chartless to the applicable authorities," Akinyemi said.

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