Delta State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), on Wednesday arrested four suspected pipeline vandals and impounded six tankers loaded with stolen illegally refined petroleum products suspected to be automated gasoline oil (AGO) was impounded.
The command public relations officer (PPRO), DSC Emeka Peters Okwechime said men of the commandant General special Squad burst a loading point at Odorubu waterside in Patani local government area of the state.
PRO said acted on a credible intelligence information saying that upon citing the men of the CGSIS, the vandals used a 120liters capacity tanker to barricade the only road leading to the illegal loading point to prevent men of the NSCDC gaining access to the illegal loading point.
According to him, “in a determined efforts to gain access into the loading point, men of the C.G.S.I.S, engaged the services of about 6 truck drivers, 2 auto electricians and a tow truck, which towed away the heavily loaded 120liters capacity truck used by the crude oil thieves to barricade the road leading to illegal loading point.”
