The
Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT has arrested a wooden “Cotonou”
boat at Akaraba sea side area of Atlas Cove, Lagos laden with 1,400
jerry cans of 25 litres of suspected PMS, 27 empty drums and
five 75HP outboard engines.
The
estimated suspected stolen PMS is 35,000 litres valued at about Five
Million and Seventy Five Thousand Naira (N5,075,000) only while the
Cotonou boat and the outboard engines are valued at about Fifteen
Million Naira (N15,000,000) only.
The
total sum of the arrested boat with its contents is Twenty Million
and Seventy Five Thousand Naira (N20,075,000) only. It is to be noted
that the Atlas Cove is central to reception and distribution of
refined petroleum products to other NNPC depots at Mosimi, Ore,
Ibadan and Shagamu areas. Consequently, the facility has become very
attractive to vandals, petroleum thieves and pirates among others.
This
arrest by the Base represents a major achievement of Nigerian Navy’s
constitutional mandate and a set back to the logistics infrastructure
of maritime criminals.
Speaking
on behalf of the Commander NNS BEECROFT, Rear Admiral Okon Eyo and in
line with the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas’s
zero tolerance of acts of illegalities in the nation’s maritime
space, Captain Hassan Dogara stated that the Base will continue to
dominate the nation’s water ways in order to prevent the theft of
Nigeria’s common wealth.
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