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  • NSCDC destroys 16 illegal refineries in Edo

    The Anti-Vandal Unit of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps ( NSCDC ) in Edo State has destroyed 16 illegal refineries in the last six months.

    The State Commandant of the Corps, Makinde Ayinla, disclosed this on Tuesday in Benin.

    Ayinla said the illegal refineries destroyed included eight in Edo South Senatorial district, six in Edo North and two in Edo Central.

    He also said about 350,000 litres of illegally refined and adulterated petroleum product was seized and destroyed by the unit within the period.

    Read Also: NSCDC  rescues 3 abandoned children in Akure

    He said the unit’s Counter Terrorist Unit arrested 14 suspects for phone snatching and armed robbery.

    He further said the Legal Unit secured five convictions, while 23 cases were still pending in courts during the period under review.

    NAN

  • Navy arrests petrol thieves in Calabar

    …seizes 20, 000 litres of product

     

    Men of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory in Calabar, Cross River State, have arrested four suspected Premium Motor Spirit thieves with 20, 000 litres of the product.

    The suspects, who were arrested along the Calabar channel, were coming from Oron in Akwa Ibom State and heading to Bakassi with the product commonly known as petrol.

    Handing them over to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for prosecution, Commander of NNS Victory, Commodore Julius Nwagu, said moves were on to also arrest the kingpins behind the crime.

    Nwagu said, “We are handing over eight drums of PMS that was seized by my men while on patrol along the Calabar channel. The said products were laden in a wooden boat with four men on board. My men were able to arrest the suspects and the products in the darkest time of the night.

    “This is coming less than one week after we handed over some smuggled rice worth N61m to the Nigeria Customs Service. We cannot continue to allow these perpetrators go free. Any product they put on water, we are going to go for them.

    “PMS is currently available in filing station outlets and depots, so, why the smuggling? Why would they go about destroying Federal Government installation through sabotage? Why follow this backyard?

    Read Also: Navy destroys 1500 illegal refineries in Delta

    “We would stay here and continue to arrest them. We are not going to get tired no matter the pressure. Our targets are now the owners of these products. We are going to get them, they cannot go free.

    “What I have done now is that whenever we handover, we give a copy to the headquarters of NSCDC for them to be aware. I have also written to other security agencies informing them of the arrests that we have made so far. We are synergising to ensure that we rid off the state of criminals.”

    Sate Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Stephen Lar, said his agency would form collaborative intelligence with the Navy to arrest the sponsors of the crime.

    “We would continue to prosecute them in the court after thorough investigation. We would be having a combined intelligence to make sure that we get the real owners because these are errand boys. We would fish out those behind the crime and we shall have them prosecuted in the court of law,” he said.

    Those arrested were 26-year-old Okon Ekpo from Akwa Ibom State, Jeremiah Iyohokwa (25) from Akwa Ibom, Israel Tabi (30), from Bayelsa State and Raphael Etim-Philip (25), Akwa Ibom State.

  • NSCDC rescues 3 abandoned children in Akure

    Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo State have rescued three children abandoned at different locations in the state.

    Corps Commandant, Pedro Awili, made the announcement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Akure.

    He said that the officers of NSCDC rescued the children aged one to four at two different locations in Akure on May 29.

    The commandant said that the NSCDC personnel rescued the one-year old child beside a road opposite National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Federal Secretariat, Oda road, Akure.

    “On May 29, by 6 am, a young baby-girl of less than a year was abandoned opposite NYSC secretariat, Oda road, Akure.

    “This baby was in critical health condition and it was suspected that the baby ought to have been abandoned by her parent, who covered her with a small towel and kept her by the road side.

    “It rained heavily on that morning and the baby almost gave up until NSCDC officials rescued her.

    “In conjunction with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Ondo State, and from its Traffic Unit, we took the child to an intensive care.

    “Presently, as I speak, the baby is receiving treatment at Police Clinic, Akure and doctors are helping us to ensure that the baby survives,” he said.

    He said that the other two children were rescued by a radio presenter in the state, Gbenga Fulani, who informed the command and the NSCDC operatives took action to rescue the children.

    He explained that the two children – a boy and a girl (Ariyo Success) and (Samuel Ariyo) – were found wandering on St. Micheal Ijoka road, Akure.

    “These children were abandoned by their mother who took them to her father in-law, Ayodeji Ariyo, when her husband abandoned her and the children.

    “The father in-law, who could not take care of them, also dumped them close to a hospital in Akure and left while the children began to wander.

    “Through our investigations, we are able to locate where their mother is and invited her for questioning, including Ayodeji, her father in-law.

    “We discovered that the father of the children had abandoned them for their mother more than two years and disappeared to unknown destination; they, however,  signed undertaking to take proper care of the children,” he said.

  • NSCDC rescues three abandoned children in Akure

    Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo State said on Saturday it rescued three children abandoned at different locations in the state.

    The Corps Commandant, Pedro Awili, disclosed this in Akure, the state capital.

    He said the NSCDC officers rescued the children at two different locations in Akure on May 29, adding that the children are between the ages of one and four years.

    The commandant said the NSCDC personnel rescued the one-year old child at a road opposite the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Secretariat in Oda road, Akure.

    Awili said: “On May 29, at about 6:00 a.m., a young baby-girl of less than one year was abandoned opposite NYSC secretariat, Oda road, Akure.

    “This baby was in critical health condition and it was suspected that she was abandoned by her parent, who covered her with a small towel and kept her by the road side.

    “It rained heavily on that morning and the baby almost gave up until NSCDC officials rescued her.

    “In conjunction with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Ondo State, and from its Traffic Unit, we took the child to an intensive care.

    “Presently, as I speak, the baby is receiving treatment at police clinic in Akure and doctors are helping us to ensure that the baby survives.”

    NAN

     

  • 15 illegal filling stations in A’Ibom to pay N2.5 million to DPR

    Fifteen illegal filling stations in Akwa Ibom State are to pay the whopping sum of N2.5 million to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).

     DPR operations controller Eket Field, Mr. Tamunoiminabo Kingsley Sundaye said the 15 stations have been operating illegally in the state between last year and May this year.

    Speaking with journalists yesterday , Kingsley-Sundaye said the stations would pay the sum of N2.5 million each as fine for going contrary to the Petroleum Act of 1969.

    He said the act states that nobody can store or sell petroleum products without license in Nigeria.

    Kingsley-Sundaye explained that the marketers were operating without documentation from DPR’s office in the state.

    “We have sealed 15 petrol stations from last year to date in the state because they do not have any documentation from DPR office,” Kingsley-Sundaye said.

    He noted that the filling stations had been operating without licence from DPR’s office for more than six years.

    Read Also: DPR seals 4 filling stations in Anambra

    Kingsley-Sundaye said that the department was collaborating with security agencies to prosecute the offenders.

    “We have written to NSCDC, that the filling stations that we sealed should not operate because they have not regularised their stations and should not operate until further notice.

    “The security operatives are putting eyes on them to ensure that the government seal order are not tampered with,” he said.

    The DPR Boss added that those illegal stations could not stand the purpose it was meant for.

    He said that two fillings stations violated DPR seal order and one was under dispensing in the state.

    Kingsley-Sundaye advised petroleum marketers to ensure that their facilities have current approval or licenses before operating their businesses.

    “Those stations that are adamant will have their stations sealed until they do the needful.

    “There are some stations that are built without approval and we observed that some good standard stations are illegal in the state,” he said.

    He said that the department had done jingles severally to ensure that filling stations would come to regularized their stations in the DPR’s office but to no avail. 

  • NSCDC arrests 30 suspects in Bayelsa

    Mr Godwin Nwachukwu, Bayelsa Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said on Sunday that the command arrested 30 suspects of various offences between January and April.

    Nwachukwu told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa that the suspects were arrested for pipeline vandalism, oil theft and diversion of refined products.

    The commandant said that investigations into the alleged offences were at various stages and that the suspects would be prosecuted afterwards.

    He said that the command had also clamped down on the distribution chain of illegally refined petroleum products leading to the seizure of six trucks laden with the products.

    Nwachukwu said the command had however ensured reduction of pipeline vandalism and sabotage on oil infrastructure in its area of operation.

    He said that the command had increased its surveillance activities on the pipeline network in the state.

    According to him, some oil firms operating in the state had confirmed the reduction of the incidents at their oil fields.

    “We have had oil companies confirm that our operation had stabilised their activities, leading to uninterrupted oil production.

    “Agip at a time suspended operations in Bayelsa due to high levels of oil theft. But only last week, the management of the company commended the improvement in security.

    “We are however not leaving anything to chance. Our strategy is to keep our operatives actively engaged in constant patrols to deter vandals.

    “There is also cordial relationship with sister security services; we often collaborate with each other in fighting crime,’’ he said.

    Nwachukwu appealed to community leaders in the oil bearing areas of Bayelsa to support the efforts of the NSCDC in fighting crimes.

    The commandant noted that the activities of oil thieves had adversely affected the environment and economy of the state. (NAN)

  • Troops arrest 40 for pipeline vandalism, cultism

    12 impostors held in military uniform

     

    A team of security agencies, led by troops of 81 Division of the Nigerian army, has arrested 40 suspected criminals for offences bordering pipeline vandalism, cultism, and impersonation.

    Some of the suspects were apprehended after gun battle with the security team, comprising soldiers, Department of State Service (DSS) operatives, police task force, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps.

    Parading the suspects on Thursday at the 174 Battalion, Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Enobong Udoh, said 12 suspected pipeline vandals were arrested in early hours of Wednesday in Magboro, Ogun State, during anti-illegal bunkering and anti-pipeline vandalism patrol.

    The suspected vandals, he said, were scooping Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from a pipeline they severed when they sighted the security team on patrol.

    The armed vandals allegedly fired shots sporadically to escape from the scene.

    Read Also: Suspected cultists arraigned for firearms possession

    Udoh said: “On sighting the troops, the armed vandals fired sporadically before abandoning their vehicles loaded with the refined petroleum products and some empty jerry cans.

    They fled to avoid being arrested. Notwithstanding, the troops arrested 12 of the vandals during a cordon and search operation conducted around the vicinity.”

    The GOC said 8,300 litres of PMS and 24 vehicles, including three trucks, nine buses, eight space wagon cars, one Hilux van, three salon cars and four motorcycles, were recovered from the suspected vandals.

    In similar operation carried out by troops of 81 Division at the location of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline in Akute, five suspects were arrested with 19,600 litres of PMS as vandals loaded their vehicles with filled jerry cans.

    Also paraded were 12 suspected impostors arrested by special military team codenamed Operation Checkmate. The suspects, Udoh said, were picked up at various locations in Lagos and Ogun states while perpetrating illegalities in military uniforms.

    Troops also arrested 11 suspected cultists, while combing Reshe and Odokekere areas of Ikorodu. Four of the suspected cultists, the GOC said, had been on the wanted list after their escape from a raid carried out last month by Operation Cordon and Search in Egirin Depression area.

    Udoh said all the suspects were undergoing preliminary investigations after which they would be handed over to the appropriate security agencies for further investigation and prosecution. He praised Lagos and Ogun residents for cooperating with security agencies and giving information on the activities of the suspects.

    He said: “Special operations set up by the Nigerian Army will not relent until our communities are rid of all forms of cultism, vandalism and other violent criminal activities and their perpetrators. I enjoin members of the public to continue to reach out our men to give useful information that will assist us in ridding vulnerable areas of the activities of criminal elements.”

  • Family of murdered teenage girl seeks justice in Ibadan

    …police detain killer suspect

     

    The parents of a teenage girl , Lateefat Kofoworola Abubakar who was hit by a bullet and died few minutes later during last Saturday’s local government congress fracas in Oyo state have demanded justice.

    The 18-year-old Lateefat Kofoworola Abubakar, who was shot in the head by an official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) last weekend.

    Reeling from the pains of the unfortunately loss, the families of the girl have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, the state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to assist in ensuring that justice prevails in the gruesome murder of their daughter.

    The deceased was killed by the NSCDC personnel at Idi-Oro, Dugbe area of Ibadan while on her way to get drugs at the pharmacy store.

    It was gathered that the late Kofoworola who wrote her last WAEC papers three days before her sudden death, had earlier complain of headache at about 12noon on the fateful Saturday.

    It was further gathered that a fracas had ensued between two factions of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area, during the conduct of the May 13th local government elections in the state and NSCDC men who were supposed to control the situation started shooting sporadically from the vehicle on getting to the scene.

    Her elder sibling, Gbemisola, who address newsmen in Ibadan yesterday said what they want is justice since the NSCDC personnel lied he lost his foothold while he was coming down from their vehicle and his gun triggered off by itself “we pray to Allah to grant my sister Aljanah Firdaus. But all we seek for is justice,” Gbemisola noted.

    Gbemisola refuted the NSCDC personnel’s statement when her family visited him in police custody.
    According to her, ‘’what he (the suspect) told us is pure lie, how can a security person who have common sense said gun triggered itself while he was coming down from the vehicle.

    Read Also: Alleged torture: Motorcyclist committed suicide, says NSCDC

    In his reaction father of the victim, Kolawole Abubakar, debunked reports making the rounds that the governor has visited to commiserate with the family.

    Meanwhile, the Oyo State Police Command spokesperson, Adekunle Ajisebutu in his reply to journalists over the weekend said the suspect, an NSCDC personnel, is in police custody.

    According to Ajisebutu the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Odude, has directed the State Investigation and Intelligence Department, Iyaganku to carry out diligent investigation into the incident.

  • NSCDC deploys 2,000 men for Buhari’s visit to Jigawa

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed about 2,000 personnel in Jigawa State ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-day visit, it was learnt yesterday.

    Spokesman Adamu Shehu, who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse, said: “The Jigawa State Command of NSCDC is prepared for the President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-day visit. The command is deploying about 2,000 Special Tactical Operational Squad and Intelligence officers, from the state command and neighbouring formations in Kano and Bauchi states, to assist in providing security.”

    Shehu explained that the officers would be stationed at strategic places in areas the President would visit.

    He added that intelligence officers will also be deployed for intelligence gathering and reporting, to complement other security agencies.

    “This will give the command an edge in understanding and combating threats where possible. It is on this note that the command enjoins the public to cooperate with the officers to ensure the  smooth and safe stay of Mr President,” he added.

    Buhari is expected to inaugurate five regional roads and five township roads, among other activities, during the visit.

  • Osun seals OAU’s Administrative Block over N1.8bn tax debt

    The Osun State Internal Revenue Service  on Wednesday  sealed the Administrative Bock of  Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, over a N1.8 billion  tax debt.

    The newsmen reports that the officials of the service, who came with policemen and NSCDC personnel, put the gates of the block under lock and key after obtaining a court order.

    The Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, told newsmen that the state government and the university had an agreement which the institution was complying with.

    Read Also: Electricity employees seek protection in Osun

    Olarewaju said that the university, being a federal institution, was committed to paying up the tax debt owed the state.

    The spokesman, who  appealed to the state government to give the university a respite, however, said  fresh students  just beginning their week of orientation were not affected as only the Administrative Block was sealed and not their departments.

    According to Olarewaju, the management of OAU is law abiding and will ensure prompt payment of its tax debt.

    NAN