The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major-General Ashimiyu Olaniyi, on Monday, expressed surprise at the level of the illicit activities on the River Niger.
“Chief of Army Staff has directed that these activities and other crimes within the coastline and creeks of the River Niger must be stopped.
“The Nigerian Army will not rest in its duties to put an end to bunkering. And there will be zero tolerance of such activities and other crimes committed on the River Niger and its creeks,” he said.
Earlier, Lieutenant-Colonel Bayode Adetoro, the Commanding Officer, 14 Field Engineer Regiment, Onitsha, who led the operations, said the feat was achieved through the mandate of the engineers’ regiment and assistance of the navy.
“Engineer soldiers from 14 Field Engineer Regiment were on patrol yesterday at about 4.00 p.m around Atani area and they intercepted a boat that was about to sink.
“They tried to rescue the boat but it went down. When it sank, we called the navy to assist us, but it was late in the night. We decided that we start the clean-up in the morning on its recovery.
“By the time we got there this morning, most of the drums are gone; so we decided to search the entire area and, in the process, we discovered these refineries,” he said.
Captain Abdullahi Ahmed, Commanding Officer of Naval Out-post, Ogbaru, near Onitsha, said the army and the navy would continue to collaborate to stamp-out bunkering in the River Niger waterways.http://xclusivetalk.blogspot.com
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