The Navy said they have destroyed 78 illegal refineries in Rivers State,the Chief of Navy Staff Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete said the operation began June 15,which is still ongoing, even as the operations were carried out in Onne axis, Bolo, Alakiri, Cartharwn channels, Bille and Ke in Port Harcourt and Bonny areas.and also issuing warning to Naval Officer from aiding oil bunkering, adding that anyone among the Officers indicted in this illegal Bunkering will be sanctioned accordingly.
“If you have been party to illegal duties out there, my advice to you from this day as I finish addressing you, is to discountinue and dissociate yourselves from such.
“The navy will not condone any illegal act out there. I refer in particular to those of you aiding and abetting crude oil theft.
“I don’t want to believe that you men are part of this; but if you have dealings with the bad guys, those who have ensured that you don’t prosper as a nation, please keep away. Otherwise, we will treat you as a saboteur and you will be sanctioned appropriately.
“Nigeria deserves a navy we all should be proud of; a navy that finds itself at sea doing what other navies of the world do, and not the navy that finds itself at shore engaged in things that are strange to most navies
“We are all aware that our nation depends majorly on the maritime environment for survival, and we are constitutionally mandated to ensure that the maritime domain is safe to enable us reap from the resources therein, for the prosperity of our nation.
“In recent times, the insecurity in the maritime environments has denied our nation of the needed revenue for development. If we continue along that line, even the navy as an institution will find it difficult to survive.
He also said that the tactics adopted by the Navy has reduced piracy ,oil theft and attack on oil and gas installation in the Niger Delta waterways
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