Troops of Operation Pulo Shield in the Niger Delta have captured nine suspected unrefined petroleum criminals in the demonstration of siphoning the item into their trucks.
The suspects were said to be siphoning the item from an oil pipeline fitting in with Midwestern Oil Company situated in Ughelli, Delta State.
The nine suspects, said to be captured by troops of the OPS in Sector 1, 222 Battallion, Ughelli, were paraded on Thursday.
Amid the parade of the suspects, Commander, OPS, with central command in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Major General Alani Okunlola, said the suspects were captured by the troops on watch of Ozoro/Owelogbo in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta.
The authority, who talked through the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Center, Lt.Col. Isa Ado, said the suspects were captured through "dependable insight gathering" by the troops.
Okunola gave the names of the caught suspects as Vincent Okafor, Garba Aliu, Michael Osuji, Uche Oriekofe and Victor Andrew.
Others, as indicated by the Commander, are Lucky Ogwugwhuo, Chinedu Nwanegbo, Julius Okeh and Tari Jonathan.
The OPS administrator said the suspects were captured alongside a white/blue Passage wagon auto with number plate IMO KGE 17 XD.
He said the suspects were gathered together and captured in the wake of setting up a bunkering site with valves and hoses to obtain entrance to the oil organization's pipeline before stacking onto trucks and tankers around 2.45am last Saturday.
Okunola showed that the suspects admitted to getting help from a few adolescents of the host group to get entrance into the pipeline.
The authority lamented that after captures, indictment had not been sufficiently quick, saying that more than 900 had been in the guardianship of arraigning organizations without indictment.
Okunlola, who communicated worry over the improvement, supported the setting up of uncommon courts to attempt oil hoodlums and related culprits in the locale.
The authority said, "I need to console individuals from the general population of the summon's restored force and determination in the war against raw petroleum robbery, pipeline vandalism and other criminal exercises in oil-delivering ranges of Nigeria.
"The OPS has zero resilience for oil robbery and related offenses. Our order is a persistent one went for destroying unlawful oil bunkering, damage of oil and gas establishments in the streams and conduits, among others."
Admitting to the wrongdoing, the ring pioneer, Lucky Ogwugwhuo, said he went into the wrongdoing to empower him to raise cash to cure himself of an undisclosed sickness.
"I was pushed into the wrongdoing on account of sick wellbeing," he talked remorsefully.
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