Wanted Niger Delta Oil Bunker Arrested After 5 Years

The Nigerian Navy has seized a suspected "famous" militant wanted since 2011 and involved in pipeline vandalism, ocean theft and unlawful oil bunkering.

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta, striving to defend the country's regional waters and outskirts against beach front instability, illicit bunkering, theft and pipeline vandalism, declared the capture on Thursday.

Tending to columnists at the NNS base camp in Warri Delta State, Commander Jik Dzunve said NNS Delta authorities would keep on checking the exercises of militants in the oil-rich district.

Oil bunkering has long turned into a difficult issue in Niger Delta, with Nigeria losing enormous whole at a period that raw petroleum cost has dropped radically.


This developing pattern has been a wellspring of genuine worries to security agents, as they escalate endeavors to put a stop to it.

In light of this, the Nigerian Navy Ship Delta which is too a piece of Operation Delta Safe, commanded to control and conceivably put a conclusion to illicit bunkering in the oil-rich area paraded the suspect, Abraham Duru otherwise called Gabon for oil burglary and other related wrongdoing.

As indicated by the Commander, the suspected militant has been on a wanted list since 2011

Admitting to his wrongdoing, the suspect clarified how he got himself into in the criminal demonstration.

Guaranteeing Nigerians that the Navy part of Operation Delta Safe is set on killing the threat of different criminal exercises in the locale, Commander Dzunve said that the suspect would be given over to the proper authorities for further indictment.

As the security organizations increases endeavors to destroy this abundances, they are requesting coordinated effort between groups keeping in mind the end goal to react to the expanding rate of taking of raw petroleum through unlawful oil bunkering exercises in the streams of the Niger Delta.