NAVY DESTROYS OIL BUNKERING VESSEL ARRESTED BY TOMPOLO’S MEN
The Nigerian Navy in Delta State yesterday destroyed an oil tanker that had stopped and stolen crude oil in the Niger Delta.
It emerged that oil was being illegally loaded onto the vessel when agents from Tantita Security Services, one of the contracted pipeline companies, arrested it and seven crew members. him, last Thursday. About 600 to 650 meters of the illegally transported oil in five cabins is believed to be on board the vessel registered L85 B9.50 at the time of its arrest.
After the captain of the ship, Temple Manasseh, confirmed that the ship was indeed full of rust and the crew of Tantita was arrested, the Nigerian Navy set fire to the ship off the coast of Warri at about 3:00 p.m. night. The boat captain, said that the boat was hijacked and thrown into the canal, where unknown criminals forcibly loaded it with coconut oil.
