16,000 litres of stolen petroleum products impounded in Cross River

 

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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Cross River Command has impounded 16,000 litres of petroleum products.

This was in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory and Sector 4, Operation Delta Safe.

The state commandant, Samuel Fadeyi confirmed to Journalists in Calabar that they were stolen and stored in different trailer parks in the state.

Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) or better known as diesel stored in drums and gallons was the main product stolen.

He, however, said the perpetrators were at large.

Fadeyi explained that they had to embark on the search when the Commandant General of NSCDC, directed that impoundment should be carried out.

“We went round trailer parks in the state and discovered that hawkers indeed had a lot of petroleum products stored in drums and hidden.

“As we know, the storage of petroleum products was a highly regulated field and required a license for anyone to go into it because of the danger it could pose to the society if not properly handled.”