In a bid to sanitise the Nigeria\u2019s waterways and make it safe and secure, the Joint Military Taskforce (JTF), code named \u201cOperation Delta Safe,\u201d has apprehended two pirates who specialise in terrorising the waterways in Rivers communities
\nAlso in the soldiers\u2019 custody are 10 suspected pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta region.
\nThe arrests were made known\u00a0 in a statement by Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, shortly after a bi-weekly briefing of the Defence Headquarters in Abuja.
\nOnyeuko gave the identities of the suspected pirates as Fagha Golden (aka Fine Boy) and Victor Elkanah (aka Victor Padi).
\nThe Director said Golden was apprehended at Nonwa village in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State, while Elkanah was nabbed at Pharzy Spring Diagnostic and Wellness Hospital in Onne in Eleme Local Government Area of the State.
\nHe said the suspects were\u00a0 responsible for\u00a0 series of armed attacks on oil vessels, kidnapping of expatriates and illegal oil bunkering in Rivers State.
\nHe said the arrests show the unrelenting efforts of the troops, which \u201chave sustained their offensive posture to deny criminals the much- needed space for their illegal operations in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States. In the process, several illegal oil-refining sites were discovered and destroyed.
\n\u201cThese include 37 illegal refineries, 68 dugout pits, 188 storage tanks, 33 wooden boats\u201d, he said.
\nOthers include 16 pumping machines, one generator, one vehicle, 175 cooking ovens and 23 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition.\u00a0 Also recovered were 3.7 million litres of crude oil and 2.01 million litres of AGO.<\/p>\n
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