The main coordinator of attacks on the
NNPC, and Chevron oil and gas installations
in Delta State was paraded in Warri,
yesterday, by the Navy.
His arrest came barely 24 hours after the Federal
Government extended the olive branch to
militants in the Niger Delta, who had been
blowing up oil and gas pipelines in the
region through a two-week ceasefire to
create room for dialogue.
Parading the suspected coordinator of
attacks on NNPC and Chevron facilities at
the Naval base in Warri, yesterday,
Commander of Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS
Delta, Commodore Ramie Mohammed, said
he was arrested in connection with the
attack on SPDC 48-inch export pipeline
onshore Forcados.
The commander, who did not want to be
drawn into comments on whether the
suspect was a member of Niger Delta
Avengers, NDA, or not, said what was of
interest to him was that the suspect carried
out the attacks.
He said: “The Nigerian Navy, in collaboration
with other security agencies, has arrested
the main coordinator of attacks on NNPC
and Chevron oil and gas facilities we have
witnessed since May 4 with the attack on
Okan Valve Platform offshore Escravos. This
arrest came after several weeks of trailing
and arrest of several of his foot soldiers.
“This suspect is also deeply involved in
pipeline vandalism to steal crude oil. He
steals crude from about 35 abandoned oil
well heads and pipelines in Okpoko and
Obodo, Warri South-West Local Government
Area, Delta State. Navy believes with his
arrest, attacks on Chevron/NNPC oil and gas
facilities will abate."
Also paraded by the NNS Delta was a
suspect arrested on May 29 for the alleged
role he played in a gang’s killing of a soldier,
police officer and one other victim.
Both the suspected killer of security
operatives and the alleged mastermind of
the NNPC and Chevron oil and assets
attacks were hooded.
Commodore Mohammed said the identity of
the suspects were shielded so as not to
compromise ongoing investigations that
would lead to arrest of his collaborators.
When interrogated, the suspected killer of a
policeman and soldier, arrested in Sapele,
told Vanguard that his friend, identified as
“Oyile” was the mastermind.
However, the suspect arrested for co-
ordinating blow-up of pipelines, told
reporters he and his fronts bought stolen
crude from one William, who allegedly
siphoned products from abandoned wells in
the Delta waterways. SRC vanguard news.
NNPC, and Chevron oil and gas installations
in Delta State was paraded in Warri,
yesterday, by the Navy.
His arrest came barely 24 hours after the Federal
Government extended the olive branch to
militants in the Niger Delta, who had been
blowing up oil and gas pipelines in the
region through a two-week ceasefire to
create room for dialogue.
Parading the suspected coordinator of
attacks on NNPC and Chevron facilities at
the Naval base in Warri, yesterday,
Commander of Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS
Delta, Commodore Ramie Mohammed, said
he was arrested in connection with the
attack on SPDC 48-inch export pipeline
onshore Forcados.
The commander, who did not want to be
drawn into comments on whether the
suspect was a member of Niger Delta
Avengers, NDA, or not, said what was of
interest to him was that the suspect carried
out the attacks.
He said: “The Nigerian Navy, in collaboration
with other security agencies, has arrested
the main coordinator of attacks on NNPC
and Chevron oil and gas facilities we have
witnessed since May 4 with the attack on
Okan Valve Platform offshore Escravos. This
arrest came after several weeks of trailing
and arrest of several of his foot soldiers.
“This suspect is also deeply involved in
pipeline vandalism to steal crude oil. He
steals crude from about 35 abandoned oil
well heads and pipelines in Okpoko and
Obodo, Warri South-West Local Government
Area, Delta State. Navy believes with his
arrest, attacks on Chevron/NNPC oil and gas
facilities will abate."
Also paraded by the NNS Delta was a
suspect arrested on May 29 for the alleged
role he played in a gang’s killing of a soldier,
police officer and one other victim.
Both the suspected killer of security
operatives and the alleged mastermind of
the NNPC and Chevron oil and assets
attacks were hooded.
Commodore Mohammed said the identity of
the suspects were shielded so as not to
compromise ongoing investigations that
would lead to arrest of his collaborators.
When interrogated, the suspected killer of a
policeman and soldier, arrested in Sapele,
told Vanguard that his friend, identified as
“Oyile” was the mastermind.
However, the suspect arrested for co-
ordinating blow-up of pipelines, told
reporters he and his fronts bought stolen
crude from one William, who allegedly
siphoned products from abandoned wells in
the Delta waterways. SRC vanguard news.
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